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                                             February 8, 2015
                                             December 4, 2021

In a gathering ot the San Francisco History        Sunday, February 8, 2015
Book Club, there was a discussion about            10:15 AM
Yunte Huang's book from 2010 about the Charlie     Borderlands Cafe
Chan phenomena.                                    870 Valencia Street

                 CHANG_APANA


The question came up,
"Why the colorful detectives?"

The group floated a few different theories
and observations:

    The detective enforces the big rules,
    but flouts the small ones.

    The solution comes from The Other.

    The genius level is outside our ken,
    and so we dress it up as a cartoon
                                                     The fact that the
                                                     ethnicity of the
My answer is pretty simple:                          character can be
                                                     varied shows that
    In formulaic fiction, all that's there is        it's not actually
    how you fill in the formula: you inject          important, at
    color and style in any where you can, if         least not as far
    only superficially, dressing up the lead         as the structure
    character and the background setting as          of the formula is
    well as you can.                                 concerned.


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