“The client exists not as a part of the whole but as an external source of power,” Silette wrote. “If the mystery is Shiva, the client is Shakti. The client initiates the descent into the mystery, but after that she is no longer needed; the detective proceeds of his own accord. The detective will more often than not solve the mystery despite the client, not because of her. “The client is the errant goat that leads Persephone to the weak spot of earth where Pluto can let her in. “No one remembers the name of the goat. Everybody remembers the name of the first detective, Persephone.”
