"I don't think you can pick one. It's really more a question of which of them is nearest at hand. I mean, there's an hour in the day when one's tongue begins to depend, when nothing will avail except to have a drink, and to be close to one of these establishments at that time is like Mahomet's paradise."
"I don't believe you'd find any liquor there," Candis said, "not in a Moslem paradise."
"Right," Peter said. "Which would rule it out for me."
"But women in abundance," the husband said.
"I think," Peter began, "that by the time I am being conducted into paradise..." He had risen to go into the kitchen, it was he who cooked the dinners "... my connection with women will be entirely historical."
(It's better to create than destroy what's unnecessary)
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Light Years - pg. 225
Labels: James Salter
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