Nathan Bransford blog
go to it, then Scroll Down a little until you see a picture of Alan Greenspan.
And read that post.
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Vintage Books put out some quality paperbacks of the novels of classic American crime writers, pre-1950: the first Raymond Chandler book I picked up, on the back was this quote:
"Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence." -- Ross Macdonald
Then, as I picked up other Raymond Chandler-authored books from the bookstore shelf, I kept flipping them over to see the back and read something as Good as that. Well, it was that, on every book -- same quote!
-----------[From "The Simple Art of Murder," an Essay, by Chandler]:
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high tragedy, and it may be pity and irony, and it may be the raucous laughter of the strong man. But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. [end quote]
[The Simple Art Of Murder.
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CopyR.1934. Curtis Publishing]
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Thanks for the reminder of what a great writer Chandler was!
ReplyDeleteIsn't Nathan brilliant on the subject of Greenspan's apology? (But why do you suppose so many people have forgotten he made it?)