THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1956.
It takes two years to get over losing the person you love best-if you ever do completely...I've got through the first year. It's been pretty desperate
UST about
A
Confession
H
Ve
agʊ Raymond Chansi- ler, one of the finest thriller writers
them all. put a revolver to his temple and pulled the trigger.
Nothing happested, 2011
40 began what was
i
by
RAYMOND
CHANDLER
SPECIALLY INTERVIEWED
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the bitterest year he known.
has
Now he ran Call adsunt it. beezuse the a bas eased * the year has ended. He talked to me at London's Ritz Hotel,
with room which,
brass bedstend, melts, 24 11 41 extras, costs 160 a week.
il
it spans,ve way of gel- ting along without a real home Hot Chandler has hers a little wild of lonely Chunks **** *When you buy a Ju've
loved for 30 Yeug it takes curage to start andber
GENTLE
MERRICK
1 HOUR
ived her ven, muele
reflective stobment. Te large, emotional; it was a stake. ment whork Poked bank to th pcavate altama when he find to
16. torlek the radareszt That one This man who wrote in his last published
The
the
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16
didn't
Dal 'hangles ineun it" Yes, he Does or get it" Muy one day try again"
don't regret it don't think. y
I was where I believe man has the right to end 1
len 6 gela tou minek for him.
PRATO 1
But I weddn't man imaginar only stance in warh I'd even want to
ONE CINTUR-
if were flat broke I'm afrak vi percesty "
He sud
CHANDLER TODAY:
by photographer GEORGE STROUD
liked. I admit it.
Goodbye" Sutrudes p themselves in all sorts of в нул ~ with Tapuve, some with Iltale Champagne dintys Some in evening clothes, e ne chthes People liave kill- themselves on the ps of
that lightly because love m a personal after-UN. I In the knowledge that each book because I was afraid of not being Balls, in ditches, in bathroom. His fat
e kraws lus leur is groundless, don't believe I'll ever
see my has been as near as any writer the water, over the water, un
Philip Marlowe tak, wife again,"
wuld get to the perfection ho Theater
The Big Sleep, alone has much Yet his life is s dominated strives for.
bearly £30,000 since by Crelly, more than even he was listed 17 years ago. He knows. Charlie it was
It shows in the little DARE Tan dd dressing-gown.
spents X100 a week and "I can things. "I used to smoke a pipe 111 the Californian hote that . If I'm stupal cingh, for but suddenly stopped enjoying it. was no ger a home without the rest of my life so long as 1 When? I suppose about a year
don't live
spite of
E sat, legs asprawi, in
httuneif This is the man who created Philly Markowe, boughert Weil delective in mir betion And Chis is i of the gentlest men I have ever met.
Be lust hy home when he lust his wide, trefly, just about year ago. Cecily was his home, They were taarned 30 years, and for the lung two Chandler muised. bee through The linese that ended her he.
a
bath.
He pulke the tugger la ter It was old, damp amuntion And nothing happined. Chandler kept his life und kost duurity. If had muffed the simple job of killing himself.
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'DON'T KNOW'
LE offered me
*xpensive
his brand of cigarette, refused 12ad.sy and ind me about
successful suleide is agedy," he told me The suice failury is farce. For one
WELL, WHAT D'YOU KNOW!
They Fought Napoleon
But Are Still Living
1. nuke misell ("I suck to 10
the week, the monthr, the year
ha. tame alle; his appointment with fullity.
"I consider it takes two years to get over being the person you best at you ever do com-
VILA
igo
And: "I can't seem to write much now. I don't know why, something seems to be missing" He meant, of course, someone, thing in this last year. His typq- He has written hardly any writer stands open beside a pfe ut half-sheets of yellow paper. Legan nearly two years ago But the new Marlowe book he
still half-anished.
COURAGE
is
Ray- mand Chandler? Well, what Isu kind of man is Philip Marlowe
For these two are head and tal Tan ul the same coin.
und
reversy Junki
"I'm &fraid ol loneliness, crowds, insomnia (I get it badly)
telling my "I suppose Marlowe really is end
age," (He's a sort of secret mo," he said, "I "sixlyigh,") "I don't know what wouldn't
sec it as clearly 123 a psychiatrist would say about other people, but I can see quite all that. Anyhow, to hell with a lot of me in him. We're both psychiatrists, lonely, sentimental, cynical-and we're both incorruptible,
I Jun. as it
happens, an
extremely honest man.""
THE ANSWER
JHITHER Chandler now? He I can vouch for that. Chandler
offered me another cigarette is one of those rare people who and this time Joined me ("my have the courage to be honest seventh today?). He sat silent, with, and about, themselves.
thinking back For instance:
perhaps
to hi
1 ilke to show year in the wilderness. And the off a bit, when my friends lel year to come. me. I'd still get a kick out of being seen with a pretty girl in
amart restaurant.
"I'v
סין!
ambition, except per- haps to write
one really good book. I don't consider. I've done "But,"
with { grin. "I'm that yet. J must get working growing out of it Iwed, like again, properly. I'm beginning.
st people, to dramatise myself in writing a bit in the morn in all zorts of heroic situations. As a great athlete or war hero. Not now, I've conse to berins with the real me."
*SO LAZY... and How does Chandler
sens-
NOVIT-
picely. I've got through one and WHAT kind of man la as teen pivity desperate.
"Kar Uve ist youre to unbed to feel any- lung. Then pria starts. Kully
doven't hurt much, and that's worst of ali. Take the tough, wise-trucking Ha hard to be the wetnan you Markowe wave. But it's harder still to face have Chandler tender. the fact but you can live with- tive, hating all violence
her, even viget her at cruelly,
Take Marlowe, the Our doubling man of instant uction,
again, s tor- crystal tured, self-doubling writer who DIACIOUS but somehow would have been
who paet, than 150 years old. Many of them are in Russia,
remote and read."
tears up 2005 entire chapter where there Rre men and women who were
Raymond Chandler has begin again, who writes 10 tintes youngsters when Napoleon marched on Moscow in 1812. religious faith to help him. Like more than is ever published.
Some people in many brass and gifted people he But 150 years is not a record age.
why Chandler hus Buds it impossible to accept be written to have lived to be nets for which there seems no "The Big Sleep," and every one books alnce only six isolated parts of Asia are believed more than 200!
evidence.
has been an agony. And still is "I'm an agnostic-one of the in memory. For there is The figure don't-krowers, But I don't be consolation for Chandler even
T
times.
"I've reacred that atte life
venclosed
HERO me prople in the wond today who are more together seems like some- atk yenu hay
One of the greatest ages actually recorded is 181. appears on the tombstone of a certain Ann David, in Wales. Hert it cannot be proved. Nor can the ages of two other "ancient Britons"--"Thomas Parr, said to have lives to be 152, and Henry Jenkins, Y.
In recent years, however, some remarkably arent ages have been proved. In Mexico, not long ago, a rancher called Marcial Plna died at the age of 140. He had 200 descendunts, and his eldest son--of the same came-is now 197.
Even greater ages have been recorded in the past 10 years. A Turk, Hail! Agn by name, lived to be 157, and a woman in Peru has celebrated her 150th birthday.
STILL WORKING AT,15!
WHERE do people live
the longest? Hussia has 73 most centenarians, There are sald to be inore Than 120 in Southern Siberia alone, and one who is still working at the age al (15
But according to statistical research, women in Norway have the best bend of long tie. There, it is commonplace for women to reach the age of 73.
Indeed, in most countries, It is wanien rather than men who reach great ages, That may be because women often live quieter
Iva or worry less than men
In Britain, the greatest age since 1000 was reached by a woman who died at 11.
110
That Is
AN EVE PERRICK INTERVIEW
A
ings.
I'm
' live imostly in Britain.
American but I'm happier
1 Britasis. The friends i like gest
are British. I prefer British food, British clothes, even the
By
see the
had
British publishers do my books. found a flat-it's time I
home kagain. Alone, think I'd ever remarry,
It was then that I asked him:
you gled now that you
"peal the?" Like this "Ta moody type,
can't Rive
depress, HIS. Probably due tu my puritan conscience failed to die?
Are I've got a quick temper, but don't sulk. And I'm surprised to find that, like most people, I've him, not wishing 10
to shock, to more guts than I ought J answer Yes,
He did not.
Не stubbed his cigarette, thinking, seeking the honest answer.
had.
It would have been easy for
แ
"I'd say my biggest fault was would probably say was really will be a better year than last laziness,
And it was a little while before which
psychiatrist
he sald: think so, yes. This tack of confidence. Maybe.
"I'm very no
generous and paychiatrist would say that was
UTHOR Louis But the clincher, the decisive de- Golding ("Magnolia reason for his taking the
cisive step into matrimony, was Street" and all a con fire. that) marrica Mra "Look at it this way," said Annie Winetrobe on March the unblushing groom, When 12: she for the second time: I bought my house that was in he for the first.
1932 on the proceeds of 'Mag- nulla Street, which was the watershed of my life wanted Note the "first," for Mr the elegant and comfortable Golding is 60.
home background I thought And the question at least writer ought to have. 64,000
"It was one of those (and per- women haps a few men too) would had it fitted with all mod, con. alender Regency houses, but I like to know is this: Just and central heating. I left just what does the, shall we say, me small open Are in the maturer man look for in sitting-room. But I found that
The Ingest lived womun In Britain is belleved to be the Irish Peeresa, Catherine, second wife of the 12th Earl of Desmond; she lived to be 140. But her age has been questioned, and Thomas | marringe? Moore wrote in his "Fudge Letters;"
That she lived to much more than a hundred and ten And was killed by a fall from a cherry tree then; What a frisky old girl!
CHANCES OF LONG LIFE
IT is pleasing to note that the chances of reaching old age, say about 70, are greater than ever before. Fifty years ago, 48 was the average age a man could reasonably expect to reach. 'Now, it is nearly 70.
The
A
tall,
domestic staff and coal fires just don't go together. After a
year."
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(COPYRIGHT)
Firesido scane, rehearsal stage.
'Magnolia St Man Finds Someone
To Keep His Home Fire Really Burning
the home. fires burning,
I raised the matter with the few years of ultimatums of the How do you live to a great old age?. Different old people bridegroom-elect arid discovered alther-I-go-or-the-fire-docs sort, a writer winced a little.
Mr Golding, who is, after all, likes looking after me."
"And attribute their longevity to different reasons. Some say "take
when," said I, "did you realise that things easy," 'some say "work hard." Some say "cat a lot," some that what he was looking for I stave in I had the fireplace
good times word and chimney bricked up.
"No-let's say, Instead, that at around the
just Bay Feat
very little." Many of old people have their pet recipes and had apparently found in a
corner from the 60 marriage no longer looks like register "But Annie is a wonder with a trap but a release. For me, a you have known your flancee all for long life--"Ten cups of ten a day!" "sour palik;" "salt water," wife was someone really to keep
office-seeing as how and so on.
dres. I think you can say that particularly happy one. I have her life?" In 1984, Sir Alan Rook, senior health officer, Cambridge
the most manifest sign of
the This University, conducted a special investigation into long life. His
wonderful feeling of change that is to come in my knowing survey showed that intellectuals live longer than sportsmen--but
Mr Golding thought back a that
naver. again by ɛo lililo- that it is unimportant,
Bie is the fact that right now am I going to have two-thirds bit. Well," he began, "I wAS Among the sportsmen, he found that rugby players lived the Golding arcam, for instance, of the workmon, are in, unbricking of my energics engulfed in start very ill all last year, and...
"Ah hal" I broke in, seeing problems. No more hired cooks lastly, rowing men.
"So" queried," "It would be formidable women in pearl the light. The old story. When According to another report, made by a Prague professor, comes from Manchester com- ato to state that at the age of chokers and black bombariae a man is at, his wenkosta he
plets married men live longer than bachelors--by at least 10 yeqts/
with wati Northern 60 the ire of passion is more to intimidate rodyk always feels ha noods a wild” accent-to No. 10, Hamilton than ever likely to be lit by "Annie cooks all the dishes I gallantly but unconvincingly,
"Not 20,” cried Mr Golding (COPYRIGHT)
në Terraco, St John's Wood.
match?"
love what's more, she, sotually!
MY COOFTRIANT
other
ba There were, to
¿Issues • involved.
surc
Mr
longest, followed closely by cricketers. Then came athletes, and, Magnolia Street his. Annie
transferring n little bit of the droplice."
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