Joanna
John Adams wrote:
> On May 14, 2006, at 2:32 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
>> I noticed an interested spell-check created typo in my
>> last post, that Hammett was a GI worth listening to.
>> Of course I meant a guy, but he was, in fact, also a
>> GI in WWII. And a Communist. Chandler thought the
>> Commies were a joke and mostly hated the rich as
>> phonies, but his depiction of capitalist society,
>> leaving out accounts of actual production, is one that
>> Marx would largely applaud.
>
>
> Isn't it in _The Big Sleep_ where Chandler admits to admiring the old
> patriarch who'd hired him--damn! I mean, where Marlowe admits,
> etc--but says he (roughly paraphrased) "doesn't know any ways to make
> a hundred million dollars honestly", then goes on to explain the
> gangsterism inherent in big business?
>
>> was working on a book on how ex or underground
>> Commies dealt with Truman-McCarthyism and the
>> blacklist by, in part, producing noir as well as,
>> among other things, Gilligan's' Island.
>
>
> I wondered why that moderately funny sit-com was such an influence on
> me. Now I know.
>
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