In a Way

           Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.

Jim Thompson
The Getaway
1958

                 You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.

The Killer Inside Me
1952

                  I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it. But baby was dead and in a way i couldn't have loved her more.

The Killer Inside Me

          Best piece i've read on Thompson recently is David Geffner's  'Lost Hollywood Years'

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