So could the guy talk between Spenser and his sidekick, the terrifying Hawk.
Spenser was a strict classic hero in times that increasingly prized moral ambiguity.
OED, written citations tell us who used a word, not where or when (Shakespeare, the Bible, Milton and Spenser excepted).
When Steven Spenser, 52, was laid off from his Seattle-area software company in 2001, he decided to become a stay-at-home dad.
"Tracking down my previous references proved problematic since many of the companies were Internet start-ups that have gone out of business, " Spenser says.
We went to a seafood place across the street from the old Boston PD building in Back Bay and talked about Spenser, the archetypical private eye he created.
Co-executive producers Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon are writing partners whose formative work included episodes of "Spenser: For Hire" (1987), "Beauty and the Beast" ('87-'90), and "The X-Files" ('93-'97).
"Being a first-time father kept me so preoccupied for a few years that I didn't really bother thinking about the downstream effects of not keeping in touch with anyone, " Spenser says.
Spenser continued to see old colleagues and work friends socially for a few months after his layoff, so he didn't foresee any point in which he would fall out of touch with them.
Many people these days are in Spenser's same position: After working at the same business or for only a few companies throughout their careers, workers are finding themselves unemployed with an outdated Rolodex and no job references in sight.
"After a while goes by of being out of touch, the withdrawal takes on a life of its own and it can seem harder to get back into touch than just do nothing and let the status become quo, " Spenser says.
Yes, documents from 400 years ago could be lost, yet we have letters from Thomas Nashe, Philip Massinger, Gabriel Harvey, Samuel Daniel, George Peele, Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and William Drummond, Anthony Mundy, John Lyly, Thomas Kyd, Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe and others, many of them lesser writers.
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