Chandler's Marlowe

From The Secret Notebooks of Raymond Chandler:

“To me Marlowe is the American mind; a heavy portion of ragged realism, a dash of good hard vulgarity, a strong overtone of strident wit, an equally strong undertone of pure sentimentalism, an ocean of slang, and an utterly unexpected range of sensitivity."

(Used in description of Marlowe sent to Joseph Shaw, editor of Black Mask.)”