BaxDeal wrote:
>What Chandler brought to the table was an evocation
of place (in his case,
>Los Angeles) as a character in the story. I'm not
literate enough to say
>whether he invented this or not, but it certainly is
as much an element in
>his storytelling as his oft-imitated use of
metaphor.
Sure, and what I've been saying is that it's his evocation of
the place, not the place itself, that continues to be felt,
and is one of the true legacies of his work.
As Dick points out:
>Hey, Kevin, glad to see you're mellowing a little...
... without
>Chandler making a big thing about
>the dew on the jacaranda and the way the air cools as
you drive up into
>the canyons, it's conceivable that private eye
fiction would have had
>considerably less interest in the local
landscape.
Mellow? Moi?
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