Bill writes:
One thing that struck me at the end of DOWN BY THE RIVER,
when Stefanos is winding down with a drink after seeing
someone he thought was dead and thinking about all the people
who died and how everyone is lonely in their
"own brand of night," was a comparison to the end of that
Marlowe novel where the case is over and he goes home and has
a drink and stares at his chessboard and says the only way to
get by is to have "the hard inner heart that asks for nothing
from nobody." What book is that?
I'm going to guess The Long Goodbye, with its deep streams of
disillusionment, but in the middle when Marlowe believes
Terry Lennox has died.
Bill Hagen
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