katallison

Clicked on over here from q_skud_'s quote... character fetishist that I am, I am so, so down with the idea that really *getting* a character, that teasing him out beyond the comfortable formula, into the grimy unexpected reality where revelation is born... is definitely art. Not like painting pretty watercolor flowers art, like hammer and chisel and flat on your back under the Sistine ceiling art.

I think you called that one.

Suddenly I'm wondering though... when Fraser is being his iconic self, what does either Ray bring to the equation? Are they acting as archetypes of the Ordinary Guy who aspires to reach the icon? Avatars of the reader, acting out wish-fulfilment? Icons in their own right? I can see either Ray as an antihero. Or Kowalski being Chaos to Fraser's Order. Plenty of people have hit the intuition versus method angle already.

Thanks for stuff to think about.