Jack,
Re your comments on POODLE SPRINGS below:
> One of the sadest reads of Chandler is
"The
> Poodle Springs Story" in which Chandler to
my
> observation is pussy whipped. Yes, the book
was
> finished by Parker, but the early part, the
part
> that Chandler wrote, was set it up that
way.
It's generally thought the POODLE SPRINGS was left
uncompleted because Chandler died before he was able to
finish it.
FWIW, I think Chandler developed much the same idea about
POODLE SPRINGS you did. I think he stopped after four chapter
simply because he thought it wasn't working and wasn't true
to Marlowe's character.
After putting the MS aside, he wrote a letter to the friend
who had suggested marrying Marlowe off, and said that on
consideration, he decided marriage wasn't really for
Marlowe.
Then he wrote the short story "The Pencil," shunting Linda
Loring completely off-stage, and resurrecting Ann Riordan
from FAREWELL, MY LOVELY as a more appropriate long-term
romantic interest for Marlowe than Linda.
Had Chandler lived and the Marlowe series continued, I think
Ann Riordan, the on-again-off-again girlfriend, might have
become the recurring character, rather Linda Loring-Marlowe,
the wife, and Chandler would thus have been able to have it
both ways, keeping Marlowe independent but giving him access
to romantic interludes with a familiar character.
JIM DOHERTY
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