IVIV Chandler

[John Carvill]

> And yet we're drawn to Marlowe much as we're drawn to James Bond, with
that threat of sudden demise constantly on the horizon.

You MUST be joking! James Bond? Isn't he a Secret Agent, working for,
like, the British Government? Remember what Pynchon said about him in
Slow Learner? Right. Bond: there's your 'brute'. And Ian Fleming,
there's an author who should be facing accusations of racism, etc.