FIRST AMONG EQUALS
RAKE INCARNATE
Let’s imagine, for a moment, that Alexandre Dumas’s can be reduced to Spice Girl-style thumbnail archetypes. Athos, in this line-up, is Moody Musk, the nobleman with dark secrets who’s morose, sarcastic and prone to moues of sullen silence. Porthos is Party Musk, a vain blowhard who boasts of his prodigious conquests; a codpiecegrabbing cousin of ’s Lord Flashheart. And Aramis? He’s Enigmatic Musk, a still-waters Sphinx who conceals his prowess — as a lover, fighter, and much
