Raymond Chandler....
...I'm currently doing my best to read all of the Raymond Chandler "Phillip Marlowe" novels. The inspiration for Bogart's film noir period....
Good shit.
All of it.
I love Chandler because he has the ability to say "piece of shit" without saying "piece of shit". Take the following passage, from "The Little Sister" (1949):
"The Chateau Bercy was old but made over. It had the sort of lobby that asks for plush and india-rubber plants, but gets glass brick, cornice lighting, three-cornered glass tables, and a general air of having been redecorated by a parolee from a nut hatch. It's color scheme was bile green, linseed-poltice brown, sidewalk gray and monkey-bottom blue. It was as restful as a split lip."
Poetry.
Sheer Poetry.
...I'm currently doing my best to read all of the Raymond Chandler "Phillip Marlowe" novels. The inspiration for Bogart's film noir period....
Good shit.
All of it.
I love Chandler because he has the ability to say "piece of shit" without saying "piece of shit". Take the following passage, from "The Little Sister" (1949):
"The Chateau Bercy was old but made over. It had the sort of lobby that asks for plush and india-rubber plants, but gets glass brick, cornice lighting, three-cornered glass tables, and a general air of having been redecorated by a parolee from a nut hatch. It's color scheme was bile green, linseed-poltice brown, sidewalk gray and monkey-bottom blue. It was as restful as a split lip."
Poetry.
Sheer Poetry.