He went into seven of these machines, took the cash out and replaced it with counterfeit, and not sophisticated, just simply taking some bills, placing them on the Xerox machine, cut them up and put them in its place in the machines,” said Steve Wagstaffe, San Mateo County District Attorney.
The real money, $200,000, was on its way out of town, along with 64-year-old service man Samuel Kioskli, police said. Two weeks ago, Kioskli, of San Francisco, was arrested in Phoenix....
He’s not a 21-year-old. This man was in his sixties, and he suddenly decided to flee the area to go for a new life. The why of it is the answer we hope to get in the proceedings,” he said. “He did get 10 months of a new life, we’re not fully sure what that new life was, but it certainly satisfied him down in Arizona I guess.”
This was a story within a story, told by Sam Spade, fictional SF Private Detective. It was originally told in 1929.
Dashiell Hammett, creator of the hard-boiled detective novel, applied an existential viewpoint to his writing. His novel The Maltese Falcon is an excellent example of literature in which existential themes run through the story. ...
In Hammett’s novel, Spade tells Brigid the story of Flitcraft – a person from an earlier case solved by the detective. Mrs Flitcraft asked Spade to find her husband. The man had left his family with enough financial resources to be comfortable, but could not be found.
Spade traced his quarry to Canada. It turns out Flitcraft was a successful businessman. As he was returning from lunch one day a beam from a construction site fell and nearly killed him. This led Flitcraft to reflect on his life, and he concluded that he had not made enough of it. His near-death-experience made him decide to leave San Francisco and seek a better life elsewhere. He took care to see that his family was well provided for, then left.
read on- http://www.philosophynow.org/issue75/Sam_Spade_Existential_Hero
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