..................... when the overhead fans were turned on and when Gordon the manager would play music on his radio, then the room would adopt the quality that is peculiar to the daytime life of those places which are only genuinely alive at night - the mid-morning quality of nightclubs or bars and of poolrooms everywhere- the big nearly empty room echoing the shuffling of a few feet, the occassional clinking of glass or of metal, the sounds of brooms, of wet rags, of pieces of furniture being moved around and the half-real music that comes from radios.
The Hustler
Walter Tevis 1959
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