tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2681306287721676137.post6234080298553483712..comments2024-02-07T15:58:36.649-08:00Comments on hardboiled wonderland: Obscure Lives, Quiet Deaths, and Noir’s Forgotten Men of Tepid ConscienceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2681306287721676137.post-69300142276208144612015-10-30T21:43:02.770-07:002015-10-30T21:43:02.770-07:00I took the "Mama's boy" line as a no...I took the "Mama's boy" line as a nod that same sexual predilection to be dominated... jedidiah ayreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14601451789918885612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2681306287721676137.post-18343539230568310492015-10-30T20:28:04.064-07:002015-10-30T20:28:04.064-07:00The lack of essential difference between the upper...The lack of essential difference between the upperworld operators and underworld mob bosses, and the connections they had with one another, are very well stated. Goodis was hardly alone in knowing this. Chandler's the Big Sleep has a line about "the way cities are run." The novel, unlike the film, ends not with Eddie Mars being killed by bogie, but with Marlowe saying that he will go talk to Eddie regarding the possibility of getting crazy Carmen committed to an asylum instead of being tried for murder.<br /><br />I don't think Goodis was a "mamma's boy." He did live at homefter leaving H-wood, and did fall apart after the death of his parents. But he apparently disappeared overnight from time to time, to hang out in the toughest sections of LA, NY, and finally Philly. This had to do with his obsession, *apparently*, for being abused by fat African American women. So he was, in at least one aspect of his life, independent and not exacctly rish-adverse.Jay Gertzmanhttps://www.facebook.com/Pulp-According-to-David-Goodis-745231742194171/noreply@blogger.com