-----Original Message-----
>From: JIM DOHERTY <
jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com>
>Sent: Jul 27, 2006 9:17 PM
>To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: Another Chandler
Question
>
>I believe the actual quote is, "The streets were
dark
>with a darkness MORE than night." (italics
mine)
>
>The phrase wasn't meant to be racist (although this
is
>not to say that Chandler didn't have his
racist
>tendencies), but to be a comment on the dark,
sinister
>atmosphere that the early pulp stories evoked,
what
>Chandler called "the smell of fear," that drew him
to
>the form.
>
>Michael Connelly used the phrase as the title for
one
>of his two "Harry Bosch, Private Eye"
novels.
>
>JIM DOHERTY
>
>
Bosch is not a P.I. in A DARKNESS MORE THAN NIGHT. But he
functions as an unlicensed P.I. in LOST LIGHT and THE
NARROWS.
TL
P.S. Happy Birthday to Bill!
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