Talk:The Big Sleep - Revision history

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

2007-09-24T18:33:44Z

Chapter 1, page 8 (Penguin: 2005)

195.93.21.8: Chapter 2, page 6

2007-09-24T18:33:24Z

Chapter 2, page 6

195.93.21.8: Chapter 25, page 174

2007-09-24T18:14:06Z

Chapter 25, page 174

195.93.21.8: Chapter 23, page 159

2007-09-24T18:12:41Z

Chapter 23, page 159

195.93.21.8: Chapter 4, page 23

2007-09-24T18:10:25Z

Chapter 4, page 23

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

2007-09-24T18:09:10Z

Chapter 1, page 8 (Penguin: 2005)

Faterson at 18:35, 23 September 2007

2007-09-23T18:35:09Z

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-== Chapter 1, page 8 (Penguin: 2005) ==
+== Chapter 2, page 8 (Penguin: 2005) ==
 'Do you like orchids?'

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	It was raining again the next morning, a slanting grey rain like a swung curtain of crystal beads.		It was raining again the next morning, a slanting grey rain like a swung curtain of crystal beads.
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		+	== Chapter 2, page 6 ==
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		+	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.

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	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.		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.
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		+	== Chapter 25, page 174 ==
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		+	It was raining again the next morning, a slanting grey rain like a swung curtain of crystal beads.

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	Her smile was now hanging by its teeth and eyebrows and wondering what it would hit when it dropped.		Her smile was now hanging by its teeth and eyebrows and wondering what it would hit when it dropped.
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		+	== Chapter 23, page 159 ==
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		+	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.

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	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.'		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.'
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		+	== Chapter 4, page 23 ==
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		+	Her smile was now hanging by its teeth and eyebrows and wondering what it would hit when it dropped.

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		+	== Chapter 1, page 8 (Penguin: 2005) ==
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		+	'Do you like orchids?'
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		+	'Not particularly,' I said.
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		+	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.'