IV Chapter 17 Thoughts

[Michael Bailey]

 Robin Landseadel cited:

>        . . . Raymond is said to have taken his first drink as a soldier in
>        World War I after he enlisted in the Canadian army in 1917. He
>        had a variety of jobs and has an erratic employment history
>        which was caused by his drinking problems. By 1924, Chandler
>        had married Pearl Cecily “Cissy” Hulbert however over the next
>        seven years his drinking problem began to manifest itself in
>        extended episodes of heavy drinking and erratic behavior. It
>        was the reason he was fired from his job as a vice president of
>        an oil syndicate in 1932 after which he temporarily stopped his
>        excessive drinking. . .
>

whoa, wasn't there a vp of an oil syndicate in Crying of Lot 49?


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- "The doctor said give him jug band music; it seems to make him feel
just fine!"