每个人在互联网上都是尖酸刻薄的，但是没有人能像著名的美国犯罪小说家雷蒙德·钱德勒那样有阶级、智慧和远见。在1953年写给经纪人H.N.斯旺森的一封信中，钱德勒沉迷于一段精彩有趣的科幻小说的模仿，这段话击中了每一个比喻和陈词滥调é 类型的。哦，在拉里和谢尔盖注册这个域名的45年前，他把谷歌的名字丢了。

Did you ever read what they call Science Fiction? It's a scream. It is written like this: "I checked out with K19 on Adabaran III, and stepped out through the crummaliote hatch on my 22 Model Sirus Hardtop. I cocked the timejector in secondary and waded through the bright blue manda grass. My breath froze into pink pretzels. I flicked on the heat bars and the Bryllis ran swiftly on five legs using their other two to send out crylon vibrati***. The pressure was almost unbearable, but I caught the range on my wrist computer through the transparent cysicites. I pressed the trigger. The thin violet glow was ice-cold against the rust-colored mountains. The Bryllis shrank to half an inch long and I worked fast stepping on them with the poltex. But it wasn't enough. The sudden brightness swung me around and the Fourth Moon had already risen. I had exactly four seconds to hot up the disintegrator and Google had told me it wasn't enough. He was right."

They pay brisk money for this crap?

具有讽刺意味的是，钱德勒对科幻小说的嘲弄本身就很诱人：事实上，我被吸引来，想了解更多关于crylon振动和七条腿的Bryllis的信息。我对测距腕表电脑也很好奇，它听起来很像今天的智能手表。

但这并不是钱德勒唯一一次尖锐（准确地）嘲笑即将到来的未来。在另一封信中，他向经纪人介绍了电视和电影行业的情况，指出了至今仍然存在的问题：

TV stinks to heaven and even the halfwits admit it, but it doesn't cost anything, and you don't have to put a shirt on and get the car out and find a place to park and sit in a badly ventilated theatre with the stink of popcorn turning your stomach.

I'd like a TV show, who wouldn't, but not on any terms CBS would agree to. And if I got the kind of show I would like, it would probably flop. The private eye as such is dated. If you can't give him character and interest as a human being, you are licked. And TV can't. It hasn't the time or the talent and it is too much afraid of offending some jerk in Corn Center, Nebraska.

所以是的，我们可以把未来派和尖锐的媒体评论家加入钱德勒的荣誉名单。