Sublime

Wolfe now moved into a new apartment at 865 First Avenue, just two blocks toward the East River from the Perkinses’ house.

sportsman. His brown suit was well cut, but perilously near the end of its tether.

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Comment ne l’aurait-il pas fait ? L’Empire l’avait construit. Lui l’a influencé. Sinatra disait et faisait, apparemment, ce qu’il voulait. Libre et blanc et mâle, il pouvait être dissolu et drôle, contradictoire par moments, sans détour et joueur, parfois matamore, ou bien perdu ou hanté, séduisant, querelleur et même franchement bizarre – un homme

The last time Scott had been in Paris, he got the Hemingways locked out of one apartment and in trouble with the landlord all the time.

Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as paper facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.

Not for me. No mercy for a criminal freak in Las Vegas. This place is like the Army: the shark ethic prevails—eat the wounded. In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.