I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he'll beat the crap out of you.
When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!
Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.
Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional.
A true war story is never moral.
I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.
The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.