IVIV cultural context: Marlowe/Doc

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Thu Aug 20 19:06:49 CDT 2009


On Aug 20, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Doug Millison wrote:

> The pussy-eating is pretty much, well, in your face, in IV, isn't  
> it.   Maybe that's some of the "filth" Marlowe is investigating in  
> The Big Sleep?

Not so far. I'll let you know as soon as it happens. That's one thing  
that's very different about Chandler's writing—he's really set on  
talking dirty but never really gets around to it.

Very much in the air at the time, like early pre-echos of "Joy of  
Sex," very seventies and quite a lovely thing, thank you very much and  
goodnight.





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