THE ULTIMATELY AMOROUS MONK

what a strange thing to say ... my faith is strong but my hope is weak so I cannot love you ... but that's the theme in monk the tv detective ... he believes the universe is constructed in precisely this manner ... he could be wrong ... but he's not ... on the other hand he's so hopeless it maddens people ... hopelessly caught up in a thorough but meaningless drive for perfection ... but not hopeless in a final determination to do the right thing ... hopeless in the way he pampers his fears ... but heroic nonetheless in each conclusion ... heroic in his physical courage ... heroic in his intellectual virtue ... but hopelessly comic in tactical wisdom ... wait a second ... mr monk threatens to become real ... we know despite all these complexities he's always this close to despair ... the world is ready in so many places to take its pound of flesh and monk has very little room to spare ... what is it that sustains him if he has so little reason to hope for a happy ending but his faith that it will at least be true ... for you can love truth