Re: RARA-AVIS: Farewell, My Lovely

James Rogers (jetan@ionet.net)
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 16:59:24 -0500 (CDT) At 11:30 PM 10/19/98 +0200, you wrote:
>
>This is a potentially stupid question.
>A few days ago someone mentioned that Chandler did a very graceless parody
>(?) of Hemingway in "Farewell, My Lovely". Now, I never read a word by
>Hemingway, although I always meant to, but I did read Farewell. What
>exactly was the Hemingway reference?
>

As I recall, Marlowe refers to one of the corrupt cops as Hemingway.
His partner asks what a Hemingway is. Marlowe says, "it's someone who keeps
repeating the same thing over and over until you finally start to believe
it's clever". Or words to that effect.

James
James Michael Rogers
jetan@ionet.net
Mundus Vult Decipi

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