Michael Robrinson wrote:
I think that these incidents were mistakes on Chandler's
part, at least as far as what he was trying to do. Maybe
Chandler was washing his sins in Marlowe's blood.
********** I can only hope that some day in the not too
distant future I can make "mistakes" like these. Chandler's
books are classics however we analyze them.
Patrick King
--- Michael Robison <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Mark wrote:
>
> A sleazy PI who specializes in divorce cases
is
> hardly
> Chandler's noble knight.
>
> **************
> Marlowe appears to me as far less the noble
knight
> than he appears to some. I don't have my books
with
> me, but I recall the beginning of one where he
is
> called to a rich woman's house, gets filthy
drunk,
> gets caught playing tongue tag with her by
her
> husband, and then makes plans to meet her later
on.
> He's a snob sometimes, too, and not very
particular
> about who it's aimed at, be it the common folk
or
> the
> rich. He is given to whining too. I remember
being
> saddened by the ending of one Marlowe novel (The
Big
> Sleep?) with him sniveling about his lack of
money.
> What a miserable way to end a novel about
a
> supposedly
> noble character. I think that these incidents
were
> mistakes on Chandler's part, at least as far as
what
> he was trying to do. Maybe Chandler was washing
his
> sins in Marlowe's blood.
>
> At the root of the Marlowe novels there is
an
> undercurrent of misanthropy stunning in
its
> proportion, and it grows louder and more shrill
as
> the
> novels progress. I like the novels.
Chandler
> writes
> like a slumming angel (I just now made that
up).
> But
> them books has got some issues.
>
>
> miker
>
>
>
>
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