Neither Warmth Nor Light

         It is the drab desert where the sun sheds neither warmth nor light and Habit force-feeds senile Desire. It is the place where mortal Want dwells with immortal Necessity, and the night becomes hideous with the groans of one and the ecstatic shrieks of the other.

Savage Night
Jim Thompson
1953                                       
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