Sublime

Elmore Leonard, starting Get Shorty, labored over “When Chili first came to Miami Beach twelve years ago they were having one of their off-and-on cold winters: thirty-four degrees the day he met Tommy Carlo for lunch at Vesuvio’s on South Collins and had his leather jacket ripped off.”

“He’s a bad man,” Landsman says. “And he always was.” “Yes, but he made up for it by being a terrible father.”

François Truffaut’s film The 400 Blows

Part of Marathe floated off and hovered somewhere just above him, crossing its legs, nibbling at his consciousness as does a spectator at popcorn.

“Poor Mark,” Lissa said after she’d left. “To think that all along he had this great gift for rubbing necks, and he wasted all those years wringing them.”

Her hair was wiglike in overall configuration, but it had a high protein luster no real wig could ever duplicate.