The first of the undecoded messages read: "Popeye sits in thunder, Unthought of. From that shoebox of an apartment,... From livid curtain's hue, a tangram emerges: a country."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Popeye, forced as you know to flee the country One musty gusty evening, by the schemes of his wizened, duplicate father, jea...lous of the apartment And all that it contains, myself and spinach In particular, heaves bolts of loving thunder At his own astonished becoming...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than ...I had. Then I moved up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the movie woman's world is designed to remind us that a woman may live in a mansion, an apartment, or a yurt, but it's all the... same thing because what she really lives in is the body of a woman, and that body is allowed to occupy space only according to the dictates of polite society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It so happened that, a few weeks later, "Old Ernie" [Ernest Hemingway] himself was using my room in New York as a hide-out from li...terary columnists and reporters during one of his rare stopover visits between Africa and Key West. On such all-too-rare occasions he lends an air of virility to my dainty apartment which I miss sorely after he has gone and all the furniture has been repaired.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You feel you could pucker up and blow away the miles between 49 Bard Road [Brixton] and that apartment in New York where I could b...e tomorrow morning, if the apartment still existed, if Peregrine still existed, if the past weren't deeper than the sea, more difficult to cross.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I used to like this town.... Los Angeles was just a big dry sunny place with ugly homes and no style, but good-hearted and peacefu...l.... Now ... we've got the big money, the sharpshooters, the percentage workers, the fast dollar boys, the hoodlums out of New York and Chicago and Detroit--and Cleveland. We've got the flash restaurants and night clubs they run, and the hotels and apartment houses they own, and the grifters and con men and female bandits that live in them. The luxury trades, the pansy decorators, the Lesbian dress designers, the riff-raff of a big hardboiled city with no more personality than a paper cup.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mention of one apartment in a building naturally introduces an enquiry or discourse concerning the others: and if we think of ...a wound, we can scarcely forbear reflecting on the pain which follows it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if ma...n was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New York you e...ncounter paranoids who wonder if you will commit suicide--not that they care; what they worry about is blood on their fresh paint, a dubious smell in the hallway, or a hole in the awning as you pass through on your way to the sidewalk. The Southerner who moves to any part of the country has problems, but the culture shock that attacks the Southerner who moves North is almost indescribable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »