[lbo-talk] Hard boiled philosophy

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Sun May 14 15:19:35 PDT 2006


Chandler wrote one of the most romantic stories I've ever read "Red Wind." His character, Marlowe, can fall for men (Long Goodbye) as well as women (Red Wind), which is also a plus. But the older I get, the more I like Cain and Hammet for being, well, less mannered.

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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