Oh, I agree that it is - for the most part - role playing. Still, high-strung as he is, he has got the necessary interpersonal skills to slip into that role easily. His giddy cheerfulness when faced with horrific murders strikes me as almost hysterical. I'm currently reading The Nine Tailors, and his reaction on finding a mutilated corpse is childish glee. Such a reaction could easily be mistaken for callousness, if it wasn't obvious that he has taught himself detachment. To make this absolutely clear, the author even included a dialogue that takes place shortly afterwards: Peter talks to Hilary Thorpe about how when "you're interested in a thing, it makes it less [personal]", and he says, "Because you have the creative imagination, which works outwards, till finally you will be able to stand outside your own experience and see it as something you have made, existing independently of yourself".
There are many parallels to Sherlock Holmes, I think, but Lord Peter cultivates such a different persona that I would like to see him tackled on screen as a sort of counterpart to the character of the BBC's Sherlock.
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Date: 2013-08-30 06:36 pm (UTC)There are many parallels to Sherlock Holmes, I think, but Lord Peter cultivates such a different persona that I would like to see him tackled on screen as a sort of counterpart to the character of the BBC's Sherlock.