Davis on Chandler

[John Carvill]

> I'm exaggerating for effect—

But to what effect?

>  I know you're comparatively sane,

Thanks!

>surely you can afford
> me some slack here.

Of course. I mean, I'm only 'arguing' with you in a friendly way,
debating, not having a go at you. A-and, I;m losing sight of what the
'issue' we're debating really is....


> Marlowe yearns for a code of honor that really only applies to antique
> fictions, a code of honor that never really pans out in the quotidian world.

Agreed.