Salvador Dali and Man Ray
The Art of Orthodoxy #2
The Presentation in the Temple
(St. Demetrius' Church; Zhohatyn, Poland)
(15th Century)
When Legends Gather #268
David Cregan, Jack Shephard, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Page, John Osborne, Christopher Hampton, Joan Plowright, Peter Gill, Jill Bennett, Victor Henry, Edward Bond, Kenneth Haigh.
Woodcut Confidential! #7
Fūryū genji yuki no nagame
(A modern version of the Tale of Genji in snow scenes)
(Toyokuni Utagawa; 1853)
From the Southern Travellers Handbook for 1965/66 #5
Every morning, the Southern runs hundreds of trains into London. Virtually all are crowded. Some are jam-packed. Yet, at the same time, an equal number of trains are running almost empty. They are travelling out of London, against the flow.
Relevant Quote #91:
Raymond Chandler Birthday Edition
I'm sitting in that office, playing with a dead fly and in pops this dowdy little item from Manhattan, Kansas, and chisels me down to a shopworn twenty to find her brother. He sounds like a creep but she wants to find him. So with this fortune clasped to my chest, I trundle down to Bay City and the routine I go through is so tired I'm half asleep on my feet. I meet nice people, with and without ice picks in their necks. I leave, and I leave myself wide-open too. Then she comes in and takes the twenty away from me and gives me a kiss and gives it back to me because I didn't do a full day's work.
So I go see Dr. Hambleton, retired (and how) optometrist from El Centro, and meet again the new style in neckwear. And I don't tell the cops. I just frisk the customer's toupee and put on an act. Why? Who am I cutting my throat for this time? A blonde with sexy eyes and too many door keys? A girl from Manhattan, Kansas? I don't know. All I know is that something isn't what it seems and the old tired but always reliable hunch tells me that if the hand is played the way it is dealt the wrong person is going to lose the pot. Is that my business? Well, what is my business? Do I know? Did I ever know? Let's not go into that. You're not human tonight, Marlowe. Maybe I never was or ever will be. Maybe I'm an ectoplasm with a private license. Maybe we all get like this in the cold half-lit world where always the wrong thing happens and never the right.
-- Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister
When Legends Gather #267:
Raymond Chandler Birthday Birthday Edition
A congress of Black Mask authors
(yes, that's Dashiell Hammett on the upper right)
Artists in Action #217:
Raymond Chandler birthday edition
Raymond Chandler ponders petting his cat Taki.
They Were Collaborators #330
Bernadette Lafont and Claude Chabrol
(immense thanks to Jeff Duncanson of Filmscreed for this nurturing image)
When Legends Gather #266
Marlene Dietrich, Basil Rathbone, David O. Selznick and Irene Mayer Selznick
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