The Man on the Couch with the Cigarette

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“After a moment the man on the couch slowly raised the arm with the cigarette at the end of it. He got the cigarette wearily into his mouth and drew on it with the infinite languor of a decadent aristocrat mouldering in a ruined chateau.” —Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister, 1949

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