Quote Originally Posted by Adam Strange View Post
@sbbds, I‘ve been revisiting The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiel Hammett recently. It is written in third person objective, and the description of Sam Spade in the first few pages, where the cigarette ashes are swirling around the top of his desk, is the embodiment of how I infer an SLE sees the world.

Hammett was obviously an SLE; a genius at clearly seeing what is there and drawing careful, rational conclusions from the evidence. He basically invented the entire genre of hard-boiled detective fiction, writing scenes and generating tropes that no one had ever written before. And he did it best.
Maybe I’ll take a look at it sometime.