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2007-09-24T18:33:44Z

195.93.21.8: /* Chapter 1, page 8 (Penguin: 2005) */

[[Category:Raymond Chandler novels|Big Sleep, The]][[Category:Phil Marlowe mysteries|Big Sleep, The]]
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<div style="font-size:1.25em; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1.0em; font-style: italic">by '''[[Raymond Chandler]]''' (1939)</div>

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== Chapter 2, page 8 (Penguin: 2005) ==

'Do you like orchids?'

'Not particularly,' I said.

The General half closed his eyes. 'They are nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men. And their perfume has the rotten sweetness of a prostitute.'

== Chapter 4, page 23 ==

Her smile was now hanging by its teeth and eyebrows and wondering what it would hit when it dropped.

== Chapter 23, page 159 ==

He had a washed-out blue smock, was thin on top as to hair, had fairly honest eyes and his chin would never hit a wall before he saw it.

== Chapter 25, page 174 ==

It was raining again the next morning, a slanting grey rain like a swung curtain of crystal beads.

== Chapter 2, page 6 ==

The air was thick, wet, steamy and larded with the cloying smell of tropical orchids in bloom. [...] The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men. They smelled as overpowering as boiling alcohol under a blanket.

Talk:The Big Sleep

2007-09-24T18:33:24Z

195.93.21.8: Chapter 2, page 6

[[Category:Raymond Chandler novels|Big Sleep, The]][[Category:Phil Marlowe mysteries|Big Sleep, The]]
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<div style="font-size:1.25em; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1.0em; font-style: italic">by '''[[Raymond Chandler]]''' (1939)</div>

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== Chapter 1, page 8 (Penguin: 2005) ==

'Do you like orchids?'

'Not particularly,' I said.

The General half closed his eyes. 'They are nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men. And their perfume has the rotten sweetness of a prostitute.'

== Chapter 4, page 23 ==

Her smile was now hanging by its teeth and eyebrows and wondering what it would hit when it dropped.

== Chapter 23, page 159 ==

He had a washed-out blue smock, was thin on top as to hair, had fairly honest eyes and his chin would never hit a wall before he saw it.

== Chapter 25, page 174 ==

It was raining again the next morning, a slanting grey rain like a swung curtain of crystal beads.

== Chapter 2, page 6 ==

The air was thick, wet, steamy and larded with the cloying smell of tropical orchids in bloom. [...] The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men. They smelled as overpowering as boiling alcohol under a blanket.

Talk:The Big Sleep

2007-09-24T18:14:06Z

195.93.21.8: Chapter 25, page 174

[[Category:Raymond Chandler novels|Big Sleep, The]][[Category:Phil Marlowe mysteries|Big Sleep, The]]
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<div style="font-size:1.25em; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1.0em; font-style: italic">by '''[[Raymond Chandler]]''' (1939)</div>

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== Chapter 1, page 8 (Penguin: 2005) ==

'Do you like orchids?'

'Not particularly,' I said.

The General half closed his eyes. 'They are nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men. And their perfume has the rotten sweetness of a prostitute.'

== Chapter 4, page 23 ==

Her smile was now hanging by its teeth and eyebrows and wondering what it would hit when it dropped.

== Chapter 23, page 159 ==

He had a washed-out blue smock, was thin on top as to hair, had fairly honest eyes and his chin would never hit a wall before he saw it.

== Chapter 25, page 174 ==

It was raining again the next morning, a slanting grey rain like a swung curtain of crystal beads.

Talk:The Big Sleep

2007-09-24T18:12:41Z

195.93.21.8: Chapter 23, page 159

[[Category:Raymond Chandler novels|Big Sleep, The]][[Category:Phil Marlowe mysteries|Big Sleep, The]]
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<div style="font-size:1.25em; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1.0em; font-style: italic">by '''[[Raymond Chandler]]''' (1939)</div>

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== Chapter 1, page 8 (Penguin: 2005) ==

'Do you like orchids?'

'Not particularly,' I said.

The General half closed his eyes. 'They are nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men. And their perfume has the rotten sweetness of a prostitute.'

== Chapter 4, page 23 ==

Her smile was now hanging by its teeth and eyebrows and wondering what it would hit when it dropped.

== Chapter 23, page 159 ==

He had a washed-out blue smock, was thin on top as to hair, had fairly honest eyes and his chin would never hit a wall before he saw it.

Talk:The Big Sleep

2007-09-24T18:10:25Z

195.93.21.8: Chapter 4, page 23

[[Category:Raymond Chandler novels|Big Sleep, The]][[Category:Phil Marlowe mysteries|Big Sleep, The]]
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<div style="font-size:1.25em; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1.0em; font-style: italic">by '''[[Raymond Chandler]]''' (1939)</div>

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== Chapter 1, page 8 (Penguin: 2005) ==

'Do you like orchids?'

'Not particularly,' I said.

The General half closed his eyes. 'They are nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men. And their perfume has the rotten sweetness of a prostitute.'

== Chapter 4, page 23 ==

Her smile was now hanging by its teeth and eyebrows and wondering what it would hit when it dropped.

Talk:The Big Sleep

2007-09-24T18:09:10Z

195.93.21.8: Chapter 1, page 8 (Penguin: 2005)