Dutch Forkes
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| - | ''He was invited but shows up primarily to stuff 'clues' into a sack. An alligator with gunmetal paw-rings, he recieves a single, enormous and gently roasted peanut.'' | + | [[Category:Personages]]''He was invited but shows up primarily to stuff 'clues' into a sack. An alligator with gunmetal paw-rings, he recieves a single, enormous and gently roasted [[peanut|nut]].'' |
| - | Celebrated "private dick," hard-boiled, or rather, ''poached.'' He appeared in two novels by [[Stimes Addisson]]. His name is an homage to [[Wilhemina Forkes]] and his character is based upon stories she used to tell of a crazy uncle--Günter Forkes--who set up a diamond shop in Amsterdam and converted to Juadaism after the Second World War. He was stabbed to death by a half-mad rabbinical student who'd fallen in love with Forkes' wife. In the books, however, Dutch isn't Jewish and lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. | + | Celebrated "private dick," hard-boiled, or rather, ''poached.'' He appeared in two novels by [[Stimes Addisson]]. His name is an homage to [[Wilhemina Forkes]] and his character is based upon stories she used to tell of a crazy uncle--Günter Forkes--who set up a diamond shop in Amsterdam and converted to Judaism after the Second World War. He was stabbed to death by a half-mad rabbinical student who'd fallen in love with Forkes' wife. In the books, however, Dutch isn't Jewish and lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. |
| - | Though rarely found outside dime stores and run-down shanties, Addisson's work in the detective milieu has recieved and extraordinary amount of attention in recent years. Launching this critical reappriasal was 2002's [[The Forkes Enigma: A Study of Cryptoprophecy Noir.]] | + | Though rarely found outside dime stores and run-down shanties, Addisson's work in the detective milieu has received and extraordinary amount of attention in recent years. Launching this critical reappriasal was 2002's [[The Forkes Enigma: A Study of Cryptoprophecy Noir.]] |
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| - | + | : "Pleased by the parting of a crowd the criminal builds an arsenal. A cabinet of observation, of deadly vision through a slight -- through the fastidious expanse of an over-attendant mam -- a cruising face set of smile, each mile, settled, like poetry given to a woman weeping from birth -- entire faces reaching out, splayed, impossibly. Let's cut it short. We can step to the door. Or we can ''seem.''" | |
| - | : "Pleased by the parting of a crowd the criminal builds an arsenal. A cabinet of observation, of deadly vision through a slight -- through the fastidious expanse of an overattendeant mam -- a cruising face set of smile, each mile, settled, like poetry given to a woman weeping from birth --- entire faces reaching out, splayed, impossibly. Let's cut it short. We can step to the dooor. Or we can ''seem.''" | + | |
| : "Yeah. I ''seem''. We all ''seem.'' Where've you been? I have shit to fuck you with." -- t.wilson ''(igloo, 2005)'' | : "Yeah. I ''seem''. We all ''seem.'' Where've you been? I have shit to fuck you with." -- t.wilson ''(igloo, 2005)'' | ||
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| + | == See Also == | ||
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| - | *[[Ritual Murder]] | + | * [[Blood Red Blues]] |
| - | *[[Blood Red Blues]] | + | * [[Ritual Murder]] |
| - | *[[Stimes Addisson's Blues]] | + | * [[Stabbin' Hat]] |
| - | *[[Stabbin' Hat]] | + | * [[Stimes Addisson's Blues]] |
Revision as of 02:45, 14 May 2005
He was invited but shows up primarily to stuff 'clues' into a sack. An alligator with gunmetal paw-rings, he recieves a single, enormous and gently roasted nut.
Celebrated "private dick," hard-boiled, or rather, poached. He appeared in two novels by Stimes Addisson. His name is an homage to Wilhemina Forkes and his character is based upon stories she used to tell of a crazy uncle--Günter Forkes--who set up a diamond shop in Amsterdam and converted to Judaism after the Second World War. He was stabbed to death by a half-mad rabbinical student who'd fallen in love with Forkes' wife. In the books, however, Dutch isn't Jewish and lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Though rarely found outside dime stores and run-down shanties, Addisson's work in the detective milieu has received and extraordinary amount of attention in recent years. Launching this critical reappriasal was 2002's The Forkes Enigma: A Study of Cryptoprophecy Noir.
Non-Canonical Text
- "Pleased by the parting of a crowd the criminal builds an arsenal. A cabinet of observation, of deadly vision through a slight -- through the fastidious expanse of an over-attendant mam -- a cruising face set of smile, each mile, settled, like poetry given to a woman weeping from birth -- entire faces reaching out, splayed, impossibly. Let's cut it short. We can step to the door. Or we can seem."
- "Yeah. I seem. We all seem. Where've you been? I have shit to fuck you with." -- t.wilson (igloo, 2005)
