Neil Faulkner wrote (re Avon and h/c):
Those qualities being the ones that made him inaccessible to the writer in the first place. He starts off a hunky he-man, he ends up still a hunky he-man, but the kind of hunky he-man the writer wants him to be.
Hunky he-man? Can't say I've ever thought of him in those terms. I'm surprised if you have.
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