Wednesday, 18 September 2019

The False Face


       The smile that folded the puffed eyelids and creased the sagging cheeks was fixed and forced. I'd seen such smiles in mortuaries on the false face of death. It reminded me that i was going to grow old and die.

Ross MacDonald
The Moving Target
1949

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Gallmeister -
The Drowning Pool

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