A TARANTULA ON A PIECE OF ANGEL FOOD CAKE. Raymond Chandler’s figures of speech are not for everybody. I remember a friend reading to me from FAREWELL MY LOVELY the evening after I had had my wisdom teeth out. She got as far as Chandler’s observation that Moose Malloy walking in an ordinary Los Angeles neighborhood was as out of place as a tarantula on a piece of angel food cake. She put the book down and refused to read any further.