As If There Was Any Doubt

The other day I made mention of the first line from The Fourth Deadly Sin by Lawrence Sanders (see here).

I asked why the line read that the chain mail sky was raveling instead of unraveling. Well, turns out Sanders knows more about the lexicon than I.

I will say this though, the next novel I write about a fellow who is slowly falling apart a la William Foster in Falling Down or Wilhelm Adler in Seize the day, that character's name will be something like "Larry Raveling."

Sure it will be a gimmick on my part, but how many people will be as erudite as Sanders and truly know the meaning of raveling?