“Summertime Berkeley giving off her old-lady smell, nine different styles of jasmine and a squirt of he-cat.”
– Michael Chabon in “Telegraph Avenue“
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“Summertime Berkeley giving off her old-lady smell, nine different styles of jasmine and a squirt of he-cat.”
This sentence, giving off its middle-aged man smell, waning testosterone and a whispery fart of misogyny, closed the book for me.