Neither tarnished nor afraid
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor—by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.
He will take no man’s money dishonestly and no man’s insolence without a due and dispassionate revenge. He is a lonely man and his pride is that you will treat him as a proud man or be very sorry you ever saw him.
...If there were enough like him, the world would be a very safe place to live in, without becoming too dull to be worth living in.
― Raymond Chandler
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As a daughter myself of another good man, my own dad, I can well appreciate your shared respect. You earned it from each other; just as I did with my dad so many years ago. To see your good man, your dad, slandered as the BoD has done must be extraordinarily difficult to witness. Yet I can see in both of you (and Nezzie too) the will to persevere and see this through -- for you are neither Tarnished nor Afraid.
ReplyDeleteThank you Ann,
DeleteOverwhelming friendship and support is what keeps us steady on our path.
Vik