A Babe's Way of Walking

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She turned and left. I watched her go - she had a good walk, just a step on the right side of whorishness, as much provocation as a woman could get away with without looking like a slut. I wondered how long it had taken her to learn to walk like that. Or if it was natural.

-- Grifter's Game by Lawrence Block

These are the questions that prey on men's minds.

I suppose that Lawrence Block is a writer who is prolific in a Stephan King kind of way. Monk is not becoming a fan. Although he is happy to follow Block's lead into the dark alleys of the noir universe, the narrative is a bit too roughly and hamhandedly contrived even for the genre. The meanness and the passion are still there, though, along with the failed dreams and the losing.

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A Babe's Way of Walking

♠
She turned and left. I watched her go - she had a good walk, just a step on the right side of whorishness, as much provocation as a woman could get away with without looking like a slut. I wondered how long it had taken her to learn to walk like that. Or if it was natural.

-- Grifter's Game by Lawrence Block

These are the questions that prey on men's minds.

I suppose that Lawrence Block is a writer who is prolific in a Stephan King kind of way. Monk is not becoming a fan. Although he is happy to follow Block's lead into the dark alleys of the noir universe, the narrative is a bit too roughly and hamhandedly contrived even for the genre. The meanness and the passion are still there, though, along with the failed dreams and the losing.

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