“Summer had come to sit on New York's face.”
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All
Source: Skinny Legs and All
“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”
— Sylvia Plath, book The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 1, Opening line
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