“No chance to speak, she was over me again, clinging like a wet vine, her tongue like a frightened snake's head, searching my mouth.”

—  John Fante , book Ask the Dust

Ask the Dust (1939)

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1909–1983; American novelist, short story writer and screen… 1909–1983

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