チャンドラーのヴァレンタイン - Living, Loving, Thinking, Again

Benedicte Page “Raymond Chandler's remains reunited with his wife's ashes” http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/17/raymond-chandler-ashes-reunited-wife

レイモンド・チャンドラー *1の遺骨は彼が1959年に亡くなって以来、1954年に亡くなった妻のCissyとは、彼が一緒に葬られることを望んでいたにも拘わらず、遺言を書き忘れたために、別々に葬られていたが、今年のヴァレンタイン・デイに遂に合葬が実現した。これって、Long Good-byeの終わり？
記事では、チャンドラー夫妻の馴れ初めが言及されている。彼女はレイモンドよりも20歳年上。しかし、彼に対して10以上歳を鯖読んでいたというのは凄い；

A former artist's model turned concert pianist, Cissy was a married woman when Chandler met her. She was also – unbeknownst to him – nearly 20 years his senior, but lying about her age. They married in 1924, after her divorce, when Chandler was 35 and she claimed to be 43, despite actually being 10 years older. Cissy called him "Raymio".

Their marriage lasted 30 years, throughout the writing of his novels The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely, and The High Window, with Chandler showing his wife everything he wrote – despite the fact that she disapproved of the violence. During the lengthy illness that eventually led to her death, Chandler wrote the sombre and semi-autobiographical novel The Long Goodbye, and after she died, Chandler said Cissy had been "the beat of my heart for 30 years".