Jim wrote:
"Indeed, fascinated as he was with the literary possibilities
of American colloquial language, Chandler actually went to
the length of compiling his own dictionary of American slang
just to be sure he was using it accurately in his
work."
Sidestepping the overall debate (for once), just wanted to
point out that Chandler also seemed very proud that his term
for death, "the big sleep," was became a colloquialism used
by others.
Mark
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