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I’ll say it before someone else does. Best opening ever.
Here’s praying for all our friends in So. Cal, Clavius. Rain. Please.
I found a copy of the story online: http://www.design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/Red_Wind-Raymond_Chandler.pdf
Fine quote, fine writer!
But I’ve been to Santa Ana & it’s nothing like I thought when I was a kid. Except some of the old architecture…
It is a good opening. You know it’s going downhill from there.
This conversation is an entry in our Quote of the Day Series. It’s an easy way to start a hot conversation. If you’d like to participate, we still have a few days open on December’s schedule and January’s schedule is also open.
We up in Western Washington would be happy to send you some of our rain, if we knew how. My magic wand doesn’t seem to be working well this week.
We’d send you our Montana snow as well. That’s what finally got our fires put out.
It is really a great story. Philip Marlow at his best. He does the right things in so many ways.
Thank you Susan. We all appreciate it!
Thank you for the thoughts.
Someone once did look at the idea of towing an iceberg down here.
I found this cover picture:
Great artwork!
We did have a brief rain shower Saturday morning for roughly 15 minutes. Just enough rain to make mud on the car.
My cousin in Santa Barbara has been evacuated. When the Thomas Fire started my aunt was evacuated from her house and stayed with him. Her house survived the fire, although a neighbor’s didn’t.
More rain, please.
We lived in Ventura County for seven years. I loved it there! I’m so sad for this huge fire, and all the people who have lost so much. But when those evil winds are blowing, they’re persistent. I pray for rain for you all, too.
We get last rain season a great amount of rain. This is a dry fall into all the growth from last winter’s rain. It is the nature of the chaparral here. And worsened by aggressive fire suppression. But I don’t have a good alternative.
It seems that HBO ran a series way, way back that brought a number of Chandler/Marlowe stories to life (“Red Wind” among them), with Powers Boothe in the lead.
Anyone here seen any of these episodes? I think Boothe was a terrific actor — presumably he was in solid form in this series?
I was so impressed with Powers Boothe–I’ve never heard anyone else mention him. A powerful, convincing actor. Didn’t he play Jim Jones who convinced hundreds to kill themselves? Blood-chilling!
Really enjoyed rereading this, ty.
Now that this conversation has slowed a bit, in my science fiction series, there is a species of genetically-modified equines of human-level intelligence. They happen to all be strawberry roans and tend to have names related to their coloring. One of the major characters of this race in one of the upcoming volumes is named Red Wind.
Does Red Wind help the lady with her stolen pearls and unfaithful husband?
Nope. But he does provide a bit of comic relief here and there. Our hero, who is the POV character in this section, is on his way to ask for a widow’s hand in marriage and has this conversation with Red Wind:
I had not really thought about it, but Red Wind has an interesting sense of humor. This is a bit from where the two first meet:
He is also one of the few characters who does pretty much what I want him to do.
He is also not at all PC and refers to the French as Garlic-eaters.
Hardly an insult. How about cheese-eating surrender monkeys? That’s offensive.
And I like garlic.
The Simpsons could have the copyright on that, and it would certainly be out of place in the late Eighteenth Century. He’s just going by his nose.