I chose to read titles that have a sense obscurity to them, rather than titles that seem to gain an unfair level of publicity against actual works of literary genius—though the point of this article is to talk about the magnificent fictional character of Arsene Lupin “The Gentleman Thief”. He’s a interesting kind of character: the French counterpart of Sherlock Holmes and a thief who robs from the rich and gives to himself, though against his status as a thief, I consider him a sort of idea as what a thief should be like—a stupid thing to call a character inspiring for thieving exploits. It’s an interesting type of character who represents someone going against society and revels in his status—that’s the kind of thief the world seems to lack, we push to say robbing people is wrong, but Arsene Lupin gives a light-hearted take to being a thief, he makes it known he shall rob them and he makes it known that whatever they do he shall skip without care of who stands in his way. He’s having fun with his targets along the way—he’s the perfect type to represent a type of person who leads life to what he believe and goes beyond the boundaries of what society has set.

His character is like an anarchist who doesn’t do it for improving the world, but someone who simply does what he wants regardless of who’s out to get him—he’s a brilliant character from bygone day of literacy characters who aren’t muddled with complex psychological mindsets or inherent flaws to do with their life, but just a character who lets us fantasise about leading a life of Romanised Gentleman Thief. Arsene Lupin is the kind of character you want to exist for the fun of it.

If I were to be a thief I would want to become an Arsene Lupin type: no one gets hurt, I go about it without restraint and become a light-heart V of V for Vendetta—though in a world like ours, anything that takes that kind of route is made into what society considers a villain or some kind of negative thing that needs word to describe it.

Thought of the Day: October 24th:

I looked back on myself and considered one—I like being more outspoken, cynical and preferring for people to be direct with what they want to say rather than lying through their teeth.