![]() ![]() Socrates was a war hero, a very powerful man, kind of ugly. You start your university on a street corner, and people come up and they talk to you, and you talk to them, and you have to prove yourself as a thinker. When you think about the philosophers, starting with Socrates really-although the sophists came before him-philosophy is, like, real and physical. One of your famous characters, Socrates Fortlow, is as reflective as you are. But I don’t think I understand anything about it. My consciousness seems to be an awareness that goes beyond the physical-so it’s almost impossible not to believe in a soul. “People who have had to live tough lives. Now Little Green brings Easy back-quite literally, after he crashes his car and tumbles over a cliff, and the cops stamp their Easy Rawlins file “Dead.” “Most novels I write are novels of redemption,” Mosley says. All manner of books followed-more Rawlins books, crime fiction with other heroes, nonfiction, novels, plays. ![]() ![]() Bill Clinton loved Easy Rawlins, and Denzel Washington brought him alive on screen. In 1990, Walter Mosley came out with his first Easy Rawlins mystery, Devil in a Blue Dress. They build bridges and burn ’em down.” -Walter Mosley in Little Green ![]() Words are the finest invention that human beings have ever made. “ Words could be either glue or acid, an old man named Tyner once told me…. ![]()
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