“Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.”

—  Raymond Chandler, book Farewell, My Lovely

Source: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), chapter 1

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