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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