“I found Edward Dollery,
age forty-seven, defrocked accountant, big spender and dishonest person, living
in a house rented in the name of Carol Pick. It was a new brick-veneer suburb
built on cow pasture east of the city, one of those strangely silent developments
where the average age is twelve and you can feel the pressure of the mortgages
on your skin.”
—Peter Temple, Bad Debts. Text
Publishing, 2012 (© 1996). Page 1.
[No Comment is a series of posts
featuring passages that caught my attention. It may be the idea, the texture,
or the presence that grabbed my eye. There is no analysis provided, and it
invariably is out of context]
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