Tag: literature
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May 6th, 2017 6:02pm
What rattled and thumped was a knotted towel full of melting ice cubes. Somebody who loved me very much had put them on the back of my head. Somebody who loved me less had bashed in the back of my skull. It could have been the same person. People have moods.—Playback (1958) by Raymond Chandler.
One of my absolute favorite quotes lol.
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October 24th, 2016 3:07am
The subject was as easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket. She wasn’t carrying anything but a paperback which she dumped in the first trash can she came to. She sat down and looked at the floor. An unhappy girl, if I ever saw one.
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September 6th, 2016 9:12am
Cross found himself joining in the laughter. His heart went out to these rejected men whose rebel laughter banished self-murder from his thoughts. If only he could lose himself in that kind of living! Weren’t there somewhere in this world rebels with whom he could feel at home, men who were outsiders not because they had been born black and poor, but because they had thought their way through the many veils of illusion? But where were they? How could one find them?
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July 13th, 2016 12:16am
The Invisible Man is kind of a dick.
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February 23rd, 2016 2:26pm
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine.— Raymond Chandler (via farewellmlovely)
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December 8th, 2015 12:05am
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November 1st, 2015 3:55pm
There are things that are facts, in a statistical sense, on paper, on a tape recorder, in evidence. And there are things that are facts because they have to be facts, because nothing makes any sense otherwise.
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October 19th, 2015 1:04pm
It is like a sudden scream in the night, but there is no sound. Almost always at night, because the dark hours are the hours of danger. But it has happened to me also in broad daylight ― that strange, clarified moment when I suddenly know something I have no reason for knowing. Unless out of the long years and the long tensions, and in the present case, the abrupt certainty that what bullfighters call “the moment of truth” is here.
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September 17th, 2015 11:15pm
November 1945 issue
~ D.L. Champion,
“Money Makes the Mare Go”, 19th of 26 with Sackler, ‘here dubbed “The Shylock of the Shamuses”’, 21st
of 30 stories in BM~ Julius Long, “Never
Kid a Killing”, 8th of 17 stories with ’Ben
Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’,
13th of 23 stories in BM~ E. Hoffman Price,
“I’ll Be Slaying You”, ‘Dave Stanton in military
service; Bagdad, California’, author’s sole appearance in BM~ H.H. Stinson, “Your
Corpses Are Showing”, 13th of 14 with ‘Ken O’Hara, fighting
reporter on Los Angeles’ Tribune, 21st of 27 stories in BM~ Fergus Truslow,
“Hardboot Homicide”, ‘ex-jockey Nick Apelman’,
2nd of 6 stories in BMBlack Mask had some great covers.
