The Big Sleep is known for its convoluted plot. During filming, allegedly neither the director nor the screenwriters knew whether chauffeur Owen Taylor was murdered or had killed himself. They sent a cable to Chandler, who told a friend in a later letter: "They sent me a wire ... asking me, and dammit I didn't know either".

The entire story is Pnin, a bumbling Russian professor, giving a series of rambling and often bizarre lectures on everything from the nature of being, love, and death to the finer points of Romanian cuisine. I've been told that these lectures hold the key to the story: copy the first and last words of each sentence and slowly the story within the "story" of Pnin begins to emerge.

Clementine came out in a hardback limited edition, which sold out very quickly. This is why it has become rather difficult to track down and/or why it’s so expensive if you do locate a copy. However, it will be released in a trade paperback format sometime in the late summer/early fall of this year (2011), and it is in the process of becoming available in ebook form as well.

I know Martin Eden would be proud of me
Many before have been called by the sea...
-- "Shiver Me Timbers" by Tom Waits.

The ending isn't quite as mysterious given what we know today

lost his right arm and half of his left leg and suffered facial injuries, he is wearing a hook for his missing hand and a prosthetic leg that causes him to walk with a limp, and has had extensive skin grafts to repair the injuries to his face.

She talked to a few other inmates and decided to put together a cookbook of their recipes. There is a "skin on the pig" burrito that involves soaking pork skins in water. Johnson's favorite is "delightful tuna nachos," where canned tuna is mixed with chicken seasoning, powdered milk, hot sauce and other ingredients before dumping them atop nachos.
The book comes with "Did you know?" facts after every recipe, like "The prison dentist only pulls or fills teeth. An inmate can only have their teeth cleaned if they pass a plaque test with less than 10 percent plaque. If the inmate fails the plaque test, then the teeth are not cleaned."
There also is a Prison Lingo section describing terms like bird bath (washing at the sink instead of the shower), ear hustling (eavesdropping), goosing (fornicating) and spit boxing (arguing).

I've read the work of Grant Morrison twice. Once when I wrote it. Once when he wrote it.