Starting the Group Read

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 14, 2009, at 10:11 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> So let's keep going on the one front, set up a schedule on the other.
> Just let me know when ...

In this case, I stand aside from all group decisions, plan on get  
kinda taoist and watch what happens. Reading Inherent Vice got me to  
re-reading Raymond Chandler, long a favorite author due to all those  
L.A. echos from my youth , or 'yude' if you prefer..  I'm most of the  
way through "The High Window," where Hollywood's kicking the shit out  
of Marlowe. No wonder he needs a drink.

If something's going on I might kibitz. If I post stuff with a  
spoiler, it will be right up there in neon lights in the thread title.

	I listened for the echo. No echo. Nobody said anything. Maybe I
	didn't say it. Maybe it was just an idea l thought better of.
	Potassium cyanide. That's a couple of long words to be
	worrying about when you're crawling through tunnels. Nothing
	fatal, he said. Okay, this is just fun. What you might call semi-
	fatal. Philip Marlowe, 38,  a private license operator of shady
	reputation, was apprehended by police last night while crawling
	through the Ballona Storm Drain with a grand piano on his
	back. Questioned at the University Heights Police station
	Marlowe declared he was taking the piano to the Mahatajah' of
	Coot-Berar. Asked why he was wearing spurs Marlowe
	declared that a client's confidence was sacred. Marlowe is
	being held for investigation. Chief Homside said police were
	not yet ready to say more. Asked if the piano was in, tune Chief
	Hornside declared that he had played the Minute Waltz on it in
	thirty-five seconds and so far as he could tell there were no
	strings in the piano.
	
	Raymond Chandler, "The Little Sister."