Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Philo Vance's personality

He gave the impression of remaining remote from all mundane matters; and, in truth, he looked upon life like a dispassionate and impersonal spectator at play, secretly amused and  debonairly cynical at the meaningless futility of it all. Withal, he had a mind avid for knowledge, and few details of the human comedy that came within his sphere of vision escaped him.

(from The "Canary" Murder Case, by S. S. Van Dine)

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