Quote of the Day (Chandler)

"But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid." –Raymond Chandler, The Simple Art of Murder

(Progenitor of the hardboiled detective story, guide to the emerging Southern California urban culture, creator of one of literature’s imperishable characters, the wisecracking, untarnished and unafraid modern knight-errant Philip Marlowe—Raymond Chandler was born on this date in Chicago, in 1888. All hail the master!)