On 19 July 2002, Carrie Pruett quoted Jonathan Lethem:
: "And he's just also such a beautiful writer. The secret of
Chandler is
: that he's really very romantic. Behind all that ennui
there's this
: enormous yearning that causes him to reach, in this very
precarious
: way, for all sorts of beautiful phrases and unlikely
poetic
: comparisons. And then he's always making fun of himself for
doing it
: at the same time."
By contrast, the other day I saw a copy of the 1980s BLACK
MASK magazine,
#3 I think, which had an interview with Donald Westlake in
it. I flipped it open and saw him talking about Chandler:
"Every sentence he wrote had three extra syllables." I'm with
Lethem, though.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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