You were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that.

[marionravenwood]

Raymond Chandler's Hamlet

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[foxestacado]

Hee! That was a highly amusing bookend to my very long and hot day.

[marionravenwood]

"`I grow old... I grow old... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.` What does that mean, Mr. Marlowe?"

"Not a bloody thing. It just sounds good."

He smiled. "That is from the `Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.` Here's another one. `In the room women come and go/Talking of Michael Angelo.' Does that suggest anything to you, sir?"

Yeah -- it suggests to me that the guy didn't know very much about women."

"My sentiments exactly, sir. Nonetheless I admire T. S. Eliot very much."

"Did you say, 'nonetheless'?"

- The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

[foxestacado]

HEE! :D

I just love the idea of Marlowe reading Eliot's work.

[marionravenwood]

Marlowe (from the books, not the movies) is one of my favorite characters. I wonder what Eliot thought of Chandler, if he'd even heard of him.