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PG read The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler. Having the library book in the house coincided with a digital virus episode. If you are going to be without your computer, a book is a good companion.
TLG is a time travel, to the Los Angeles of the early fifties. It is full of overdressed characters, whiskey, cynical cops and even more cynical criminals. The dialog is like nothing PG has ever heard. Have you ever heard anyone say “magoozlum”?
The plot is a bit sketchy. It is the adventures of Philip Marlowe, a “private dick”. His peaceful life is interrupted by an unlikely friendship with a man named Terry Lennoxx. The first question an ornery reader might ask is, just why does Mr. Marlowe hang out with Mr. Lennoxx? We never get a good answer, as Mr. Lennoxx turns out to have multiple names, and more than one death.
If you don’t ask too many questions, you can have a good time. Cops make speeches about corruption. Trophy wives collect dust. Mr. Marlowe has more escapes than Indiana Jones, and insults everyone he meets. Another question might be how Mr. Marlowe pays the rent on his office, seeing as how he never accepts payment.
Raymond Chandler published the story in 1953. At the time, his wife was deathly ill. When she died, he never got around to interring her cremated remains. They stayed in a storage locker until Valentines Day, 2011, when she was placed next to her husband.
When PG was writing this, he found a link on Facebook to a video, with Keith Jarrett music in the background. Mr. Jarrett played a show one night at the Great Southeast Music Hall, with PG in the audience. After the show started, PG sat down in front of the stage. Later, people told him that Mr. Jarrett had been giving him dirty looks. PG saw the player, and walked over to ask him about this. Mr. Jarrett said that PG had interfered with his concentration.
Pictures today are from ” The Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library”.