terveet kadet is a great finnish punk band
>From: Juri Nummelin <
jurnum@utu.fi>
>Reply-To:
rara-avis@icomm.ca
>To:
rara-avis@icomm.ca
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Marlowe as racist?
>Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 11:15:38 +0300 (EET
DST)
>
>On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Anders Engwall wrote:
>
> > > In the fifties Finnish translations of
"The Long Goodbye" they left
>out
> > > the scene where Marlowe resents some
Finnish client for being ugly and
> > > misbehaving.
> > Was it really in "The Long Goodbye"? I remember
the scene,
> > but somehow my memory says it was in "The High
Window" or
> > "The Little Sister".
>
>I should say it was "The Long Goodbye", but I'm not
so sure now. I'll
>check when I get home.
>
> > Anyway, Chandler must have had some sort of
special
> > relation to Finland, since there is also a
Finnish
> > hotel detective in "Playback". That makes it
two out
> > of seven novels that have Finnish characters,
albeit
> > minor ones. What were the odds, considering
the
> > (presumably very low) number of finns living in
L.A.
> > in the fifties?
>
>Don't forget Albert Salmi (since we discussed Sam
Peckinpah - Salmi
>plays one of the bandits in "The Wild Bunch"). But to
get more serious,
>Chandler writes in one of his charming letters that
he received ten
>copies of the Finnish translations of "Lady in the
Lake", the first
>Chandler to be translated, and makes some notions
about the Finnish
>language. Maybe it was so funny to him that he wanted
to include Finnish
>characters into his books. But isn't there in "Red
Harvest" a thug
>called Pete Finn or something like that? I'll write
an essay: "An
>Influence of Finnish Language and Finnish Folk Nature
as Imposed on Hard
>Boiled Literature, seen from the Viewpoint of
Postfeminist
>Poststructuralism".
>
> > ObOffTopic: it's not clear who was the first to
record
> > "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone". There's even a
third
> > contender; The W.C. Fields Memorial Electric
String
> > Band. Well, at least they get bonus points for
their
> > name.
>
>They certainly do. Smack, a Finnish Stooges-wannabe
band who tried to
>make it big in the US back in the eighties, also
recorded it.
>
>Juri
>
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