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| | Raymond Chandler |
 | | "Chandler is not as far from reality as you might think," he said, speaking on Thursday at a panel organized by Random House, which has reissued "Farewell My Lovely" and "The Big Sleep" in a Modern Library volume. |
 | | La Plante theorized that Chandler desired the women he wrote about, who tended to be extremes, either luscious, leggy man-traps, or boozy chain-smokers with some hard miles on the odometer. |
 | | "Chandler was notorious for chasing women all over the studio lot, and not very successfully, apparently," she said. |
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