“He's the kind of man who was born to rise and rise: a human elevator.”
Source: The Stone Gods (2007), p.7
“And I remembered the inside of that apartment, how it smelled of mice and dust, and the old women who sat in the lobby on hot afternoons, and the old woman with the pretty legs. Then there was the elevator man, a broken man from Milwaukee, who seemed to sneer every time you called your floor, as though you were such a fool for choosing that particular floor, the elevator man who always had a tray of sandwiches in the elevator, and a pulp magazine.”
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John Fante
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Ask the Dust
Ask the Dust (1939)
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