Wednesday 1 June 2016
Proust and Chandler
I'm reading Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep" - rather late in the day, I admit.
From Chapter Eleven:
"Well, you do get up", she said..."I was beginning to think perhaps you worked in bed, like Marcel Proust."
"Who's he?" I put a cigarette in my mouth and stared at her. She looked a little pale and strained, but she looked like a girl who could function under a strain.
"A French writer, a connoisseur in degenerates. You wouldn't know him."
"Tut, tut," I said, "Come into my boudoir."
*****
I think I'm going to be reading more of Chandler than of Proust. Chandler once worked, briefly, as a journalist/reporter for the Western Gazette. An extraordinary thought - almost as improbable as the fact that John Steinbeck once lived near Bruton, Somerset..
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