(Dan J.) Marlowe plus more noir shots
Labels: Dan J. Marlowe, noir photos
posted by Peter Rozovsky at 3:06 AM
Friday, June 20, 2014
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10 Comments:
Peter, I don't think I've ever heard a better description of this novel than "This book is loaded with sex and adverbs."
With horror, I noted that I forgot to put a comma after the "than" in my previous comment.
Charles, I hate to plunge you even deeper into an abyss of uncertainty, but I'd say you were right to not to include a comma. The material between the inverted commas is not, i9n fact, a quotation. Hence (according to me), no comma needed.
The adverbs smack of hard-boiled writing from the 1940s. I wonder if Marlowe included them as a sly reference.
That window blind with the Roman numeral on it would make a great book cover for the right title. Very ominous.
Seana, would you believe I had never seen the pattern as a Roman numeral until now? "The Ninth Blindness." "X Minus 1." The mind overflows with possible titles for a book to lie beneath such a cover.
Not quite the Tenth Degree. Bottom of the Ninth. The possibilities are endless.
"X Marks the Shot."
Seana (and anyone else who should happen to read this), I should add that the Charles Kelly who commented above is author of the Marlowe biography Gunshots In Another Room.
Your photo could almost be the cover for his book, depending on how many gunshots there were...
The real cover includes a photo of Marlowe looking like a pudgy, middle-aged local councilman--which is exactly what he was. The man is very much worth reading. Take a look at some of my previous posts about him.
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