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                                              December 12, 2004

Ross MacDonald was an
immediate successor of
Chandler, writing
more-than-competent
private-eye novels,             "You can't speed up time.
often with a                     You have to pick up its
philosphical                     beat and let it support you."
undercurrent.
                                "The Moving Target" (1949)

                                                       Which later mutated
                                                       into the movie "Archer"
                                                       (with Paul Newman).





By chance, when I was a kid, I
first read a later Ross MacDonald           NAUGHT_SEVEN
book "The Underground Man" (1971).

I was completely unimpressed by
it, I found it a rather dull
mystery novel.

Though it did have a
peculiar gimmick that         SPOILERS
resonates:

    An old grave hidden under
    a newer grave, a corpse                 Civilization?
    beneath a corpse.
                                            Or at least,
                                            Literature.

                                                   FURY


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