Davis on Chandler

[Richard Fiero]

Robin Landseadel wrote:
>On Aug 19, 2009, at 6:03 AM, John Carvill wrote:
>
>>What I'm disagreeing with is any attempt to claim Marlowe as an
>>actual olden days knight
>
>I'm exaggerating for effect—something that Chandler was the
>grandmaster of—to make a point that Marlowe's code of honor seems out
>of another time. The Dude's & Doc's code of honor also comes from
>another time. It's a major theme in Chandler. I know you're
>comparatively sane, surely you can afford me some slack here. It's
>hard, after some 600 consecutive pages of these classic and sometimes
>mythic tales to fail to note these resonances.
. . .
Perhaps think transformation, sometimes maybe 
never to a higher consciousness but usually 
disintegration--Slothrop.  The fog erases all boundaries.
The questing Pynchon is often accused of bores 
the crap out of me.  The earlier code of honor sounds downright reactionary.