Talk:The Big Sleep
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by Raymond Chandler (1939)
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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.
