No way has yet been invented to say goodbye to them. I never saw any of them again-except the cops. And fast.Ĭhess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. But all a man named Marlowe wanted from it was out. Nice people with nice homes, nice cars, nice horses, nice dogs, possibly even nice children.

It all depends on where you sit and what your own private score is. A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness. People were hungry, sick bored, desperate with loneliness or remorse or fear, angry, cruel, feverish, shaken by sobs. People were being beaten, robbed, strangled, raped, and murdered. Out there in the night of a thousand crimes, people were dying, being maimed, cut by flying glass, crushed against steering wheels or under heavy tires. I'm not telling it to anybody but the people I know.' I couldn't hear the laugh but the hole in her face when she unzippered her teeth was all I needed. She opened her mouth like a firebucket and laughed.

You could tell by his eyes that he was plastered to the hairline, but otherwise he looked like any other nice young guy in a dinner jacket who had been spending too much money in a joint that exists for that purpose and for no other. The boards and spine have multiple faint, tiny white dots, not very noticeable. He had a young-looking face but his hair was bone white. Book has blue and green covered boards with bumping to the head and tail of the spine with slight rubbing to the superior front board edge. The first time I laid eyes on Terry Lennox he was drunk in a Roll-Royce Silver Wraith outside the terrace of The Dancers. The parking lot attendant had brought the car out and he was still holding the door open because Terry Lennox's left foot was still dangling outside, as if he had forgotten he had one. Chronology, note on the texts, notes, 1076pp. CRITIQUE | THE TEXT | THE MOVIES Notable lines First lines

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