“He fell off the table like a crab looking for the sea.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
“He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table, a sea of them on her dining table.
Jesus Christ, Dane, you need treatment.”
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