Hopperesque

Hopperesque

Saturday 16 February 2019

Demand Nothing More


          After the show they went back to the hotel room and to bed, for the seventeenth time in three weeks. He had chosen her because. being on the road with him, she was handy ; and additionally because she was married, had already clipped the wings of one male, and could therefore demand nothing more from him than he was willing to give. Why she had chosen him he neither knew nor cared.

Donald Westlake
Memory
(written 1960s)
published posthumously
2010

cover image
Glen Orbik
                                   https://www.donaldwestlake.com/autobiography

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