Raymond Chandler Quotes

“All that energy and activity wasted to find somebody who had in reality been dead for so long, for whom the time of the present was little more than a process of slow physical dissolution, and of the mindless lack of identity of the missing person so long called by name, the very appearance of life itself, of time in the present is stripped away. We feel in its place the presence of graves beneath the bright sunlight; the present fades to little more than a dusty, once-lived moment which will quickly take its place in the back years of an old newspaper file.”
― Fredric Jameson, Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality