RARA-AVIS: A Place Where Things Happen

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• Subject: RARA-AVIS: A Place Where Things Happen
• From: BaxDeal@aol.com
• Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 12:47:07 -0400 (EDT)
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>She wasn't beautiful, she wasn't even pretty, but she looked as if things
would happen where she was.
 
That simple, elegant sentence is for me what Chandler is all about.  
 
Masturbatory ending?  I don't think so.  Sometimes one does read a little too
much into what's there.  I think all that is intended is that Marlowe is a
pushover for people in love.  The reason being, is that love is something
Marlowe believes he is unworthy of.  That unworthiness does not come from a
sexual ambiguity, but rather from the fact that he feels that love is pure,
and that he has seen too much of the filth and corruption of the world.
 Rendering him "The Tarnished Knight".
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