ATD & Raymond Chandler

[Paul Mackin]

On Jan 10, 2007, at 9:05 AM, John Carvill wrote:

> [very slight spoiler, from late in book, page 1040 onwards]
>
>
> Was just having a look at Wikipedia's entry on Chandler's  
> 'Farewell, My
> Lovely', many aspects of which I see echoed in Lew Basnight,
> particularly in a passage I've just re-read beginning on p1040,  
> with Lew
> in LA.


Also, from the point at which Lew Basnight was first mentioned very  
early in the book
I immediately thought of Lew Archer, who could be said to be Ross  
Macdonald's
post-war (WW2) update on Philip Marlowe.

"Lew" isn't that common a first name and it certainly isn't very  
Pynchonian.
Must mean somethin'.

Even more than with Chandler, Macdonald's plots involved entangled,  
long-hidden
family secrets.

That shift in scene  from L.A. to Santa Barbara might be intended as  
a clue to something..

Macdonald actually resided in Santa Barbara, plus Lew Archer  
sometimes operated in
"Santa Teresa," a  thinly disguised Santa Barbara.

Anyway . . .