“There was a smell in the air now. The hot, close, frightening small of mob; mob excited, hungry, dreaming blood and death. The primitive in Stark knew that sweaty acridity all too well.”

— Leigh Brackett

Source: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 7 (p. 45)

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American novelist and screenwriter 1915–1978

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