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Nasty Orchids
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“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.”
-- "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler
I have only read a few of Chandler's novels, but I imagine that this is the only one I will feel the need to come back to time and again. I think Chandler got everything he could out of the genre on this one. Even "The Long Goodbye" is a clear second.
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“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.”
-- "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler
I have only read a few of Chandler's novels, but I imagine that this is the only one I will feel the need to come back to time and again. I think Chandler got everything he could out of the genre on this one. Even "The Long Goodbye" is a clear second.