>Chandler's story sense is rather juvenile --
especially compared with later
>mystery writers like Jim Thompson and James Ellroy --
but this rarely
>matters.
Chandler juvenile? Compared with Thompson and Ellroy?
Evidently gratuitous crudeness and offensiveness are signs of
maturity.
"The lobby was laviciously large, with a carpet as blue as a
Hollywood faggot's face when you squeeze his neck real hard.
There were used rubbers under it. It was soft. I lay down. I
masturbated on it. (Oh, did I mention my mother was
murdered?)"
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