IV Chapter 17 Thoughts

[Carvill, John]

It's your didactic tone that grates, not what you're saying. All this "remember, Roger Wade is the film's centre of gravity" stuff. It's *embarrassing*.

<< Right now I'm watching "Chinatown" and Chandler's hand is all over  
that one as well. >>

You don't say. Next you'll be telling us you see hints of Jack Nicholson in the lead role.

<< If you cannot see these connections, fine, ignore  
what I'm writing here and get on with your business. >>

It's precisely because I - and everyone else here - can see these connections just fine, that your relentless pontifications are so unbearable. Same goes for the autobiographical aspects of The Long Goodbye.

Obviously, since (on one level) IV is a noir pastiche, there are overtones of Chandler throughout. How could there not be? Unless you can point to something unmistakably explicit, what's the point of repeating that fact over and over?

> Type in "Raymond Chandler Alcoholism" into Google

You can type anything into google and get all sorts of results. A page titled 'Alcoholic Authors', on website Suite 101.com, is not going to provide a very nuanced view of whether or not Chandler was an alcoholic, is it? All I meant by 'contentious' in regard to Chandler's 'alcoholism' is that there is still some question as to whether he was what we'd call an 'acloholic', medically speaking, particularly during his writing career. A long-term habitual heavy drinker, such as Bogart, say, is not necessarily an alcoholic.