Lovin' Babe! I never noticed that either! The not-aging thing is so bizarre and seems so much like the accidental outcome of not wanting to write Archie turning middle age, until you read A Right to Die, and then you wonder what on earth Rex Stout was thinking. If it wasn't something Stout intended to write then you wouldn't expect him to draw attention to it like he does by recycling characters from 1938.
I can't quite believe that Rex Stout would have had it in mind when he wrote LoFM, but this quote is SO SO SO perfect when applied to the not-aging thing. It makes me wonder, how old is Nero Wolfe? Is he a genius because he has been around for a long, long time acquiring knowledge of the world and of human nature?
and returns to the topic when he feels Archie will be more receptive?
I've always figured that Archie stopped aging after the incident when he was shot and almost died - I forget when exactly the first mention of that turns up. Archie is pretty closemouthed about the details. I like to think the Archie was definitely dying and Wolfe did something that fixed him a little too much. In the one fic I was writing about it, Archie was never receptive to the idea - he was unconscious and got no say. Cue the angst.
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Re: The miserably brief span of human life
Date: 2010-04-18 06:27 am (UTC)I can't quite believe that Rex Stout would have had it in mind when he wrote LoFM, but this quote is SO SO SO perfect when applied to the not-aging thing. It makes me wonder, how old is Nero Wolfe? Is he a genius because he has been around for a long, long time acquiring knowledge of the world and of human nature?
and returns to the topic when he feels Archie will be more receptive?
I've always figured that Archie stopped aging after the incident when he was shot and almost died - I forget when exactly the first mention of that turns up. Archie is pretty closemouthed about the details. I like to think the Archie was definitely dying and Wolfe did something that fixed him a little too much. In the one fic I was writing about it, Archie was never receptive to the idea - he was unconscious and got no say. Cue the angst.