It was some time since I had gone to sleep in the same room with a girl. Of course, the room was large and reasonably well-lighted, and the girl had other things than me on her mind.
Ross MacdonaldMots clés sex relationships
Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.
Ross MacdonaldNo one looks at the mountains. But they were there, making them all look silly.
Ross MacdonaldMots clés perspective
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
Ross MacdonaldMots clés words reading books literature introversion
On both sides of the highway I could see the rows of little frame houses, all alike, as if there were only one architect in the city and he had a magnificent obsession.
Ross MacdonaldMots clés architecture city
Neighborhood grocery stores, coal yards, gas stations, cheap taverns, big old rundown houses, a few churches with blank embarrassed faces.
Ross MacdonaldI found when I followed the driveway around to the back that behind its imposing front it was just another tract house, as if the architect had tried to combine a southern plantation mansion with the slave quarters.
Ross MacdonaldMots clés architecture
A cockroach stepped out from behind the ketchup, gave me a quick impassive once-over, decided that I was of the Brahmin faith, and walked earnestly across the table on errands of his own. Somebody had left a newspaper on the bench beside me, and I picked it up and swatted the cockroach, permitting his soul to transmigrate into the body of a quartermaster.
Ross MacdonaldThe walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.
Ross MacdonaldMots clés reading books literature escapism
as if by behaving modestly and discreetly they could make the fire stay up on the mountain and die there, like an unwanted god.
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