[UA] The Wicked

[Stuart Anderson]

Gregory Paul Stolze wrote:

> At 03:18 PM 01/30/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> >It was my guess that Dirk was based on Burroughs.  He's a bit nutty.  He
> >engages in hardcore mind-altering, both recreationally and with purpose.  He
> >is headquartered in the midwest.  He is directly responsible for his wife's
> >death.
>
> Did we ever establish that?

    Yeah. He was definitely responsible. Whether it was an accident or not, he
struggled with the responsibility all his life. I see him as a hundred and eighty
degrees away from DA, though. Burroughs didn't want help. It would be a mistake
to think of him as a tragic drug figure. He was cut from a different cloth.
    Which is not to say that if you played DA as Burroughs, you'd have a bad
game. It's a good angle. It's just not the way I ever saw DA. I see him as
cheaper and sleazier, regardless of talent. More of a Bukowsky than a Burroughs.
I used to play him as sort of a weird, miscast Humphrey Bogart as Hemingway. He's
degenerated into kind of a Robert Blake imitating Dennis Hopper playing Steinbeck
in a casino dinner theater in Biloxi MS.
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"He belonged to that particular race of men who
were their adversaries' greatest champions." Eco
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