Did Raymond Chandler copy from PGW?

[Charlotte Mulliner]

In Maureen Dowd's New York Times column today (7/7/2010) appears the
following:

"To paraphrase Raymond Chandler, if character were elastic, <name
redacted> wouldn’t have enough to make suspenders for a parakeet."

The same construction appears in The Reverent Wooing of Archibald:
"..it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed
of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material
to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers."

I'm not familiar enough with Chandler's work to know if he often paid
homage to the Master. Can anyone shed light on this?

Charlotte Mulliner

[Mike Schilling]

Post by Charlotte Mulliner
In Maureen Dowd's New York Times column today (7/7/2010) appears the
"To paraphrase Raymond Chandler, if character were elastic, <name
redacted> wouldn’t have enough to make suspenders for a parakeet."
"..it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed
of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material
to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers."
I'm not familiar enough with Chandler's work to know if he often paid
homage to the Master. Can anyone shed light on this?

I do find that sentence in a few pages that attribute it to Chandler, but
not while searching his books. I suspect it's a misattribution that has
been propagated.

[Brainy Cove]

I have no opinion, not being familiar with Mr. Chandler's work.

I only wanted to say how refreshing it was to see a post that wasn't
spam.

Carry on.

Brainy Cove