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Affichage des articles dont le libellé est Tom Wolfe. Afficher tous les articles
Affichage des articles dont le libellé est Tom Wolfe. Afficher tous les articles

lundi 27 janvier 2020

"The Bonfire of the vanities" de Tom Wolfe (1987)


« If you want to live in New York », he once told Sherman, « you’ve got to insulate, insulate, insulate. »

And so another fucking day in the Homicide Bureau of the Bronx Fucking District Attorney’s Office was off to a fucking start.

Below the logo - THE CITY LIGAFI
The page consisted of enormous capital letters running down the right side-
SCALP
GRANDMA,
THEN
ROB HER
[…] Just think of the anticlimax of « scalp grandma »… “then rob her”. The pointless brilliant anticlimax! Christ if they’d had more room, they would have added « then leave all the lights on in her kitchen ».

I do know. You don’t get the picture yet? She married Ruskin f’r Chrissake, and whaddaya think she felt for him? I bet she studied the actuarial tables. Awright?
I bet you she actually studied the fucking actuarial tables.