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【Reading】"The Long Farewell" Reading Notes 01

author:way

Note: The text after ">>" is the original text

Depicts how a person looks drunk

>> because Terry Lennox's left foot was still dangling outside the car, as if he had forgotten he had a leg.

Satirical materialism

>> there was a girl sitting next to him. The man's dark red hair, a hint of an indifferent smile on his lips, and a collar of blue martens on his shoulders almost overshadowed Rolls-Royce. But it's only almost, nothing can do it entirely.

Refine the lighter into a car cigarette lighter

>> took the car cigarette lighter and lit a slender cigarette.

I'll write it very bluntly: listening to his tone, it feels like he doesn't drink much wine / and Chandler just feels like he's drinking orange water to reflect the sobriety of the characters

>> Listen to his tone and words, you will think that he has just drunk a few sips of orange water.

Describe the air of indifference that emanates from the human body

>> At this moment, the ice cream fell on her and could not melt

Sit on the ground→ sit on the asphalt (refine the road into asphalt)

>> sit on the asphalt road.

Depiction of indifference (vocal aspect)

>> Sounds like stainless steel

Depicting people drunk and confused

>> "He's just a lost dog," she said with a cold smile, "you might be able to help him find a nest." He was somewhat well trained. ”

Rolls-Royce drove away in detail a more specific depiction of the action of the car driving away

>> Rolls-Royce drove along the entrance lane to Sunset Boulevard, turned a corner to the right, and drove away

Your own car is inferior to someone else's car, and you compare it to a lead bag

>> When he drove my Oz over, I felt as if I had carried a lead bag

>> Mention (Take)

>> Yucca Street, Bay Valley District

>> Sequoia Steps (Slabs)

>> Eucalyptus (Woods)

Depicting drunken people

>> His legs look like they were made of eraser

>> 瘫

>> 啜

Describe empty apartment scenes The use of numerical words is concretized

>> a coffee table in front of a hard green couch with a half-drunk bottle of Scotch whisky, a bowl of melted ice cubes, three empty soda bottles, two glasses and an ashtray — cigarette butts with lipstick marks on them and some without.

Describe the couch as hard

>> The green couch of the hard state

>> 搁

Use of lipstick prints There can also be lipstick marks on the cup

>> some of the cigarette butts inside have lipstick marks, and some don't.

Rewrite: At that time, the shops on both sides of Tuberose Avenue were filled with asking for Valentine's Day garbage, and there was a loud clamor on the late-night radio, saying that if you didn't prepare something for your boyfriend and girlfriend earlier, you would be in endless trouble. In fact, there will be trouble no matter what. It's always been.

>> At that time, the shops on both sides of Hollywood Boulevard were filled with asking christmas garbage, and newspapers began to clamor that if you didn't buy the holiday needs earlier, you would be in endless trouble. In fact, there will be trouble no matter what. This has always been the case.

Depicting people sloppy and devoid of spirit

>> he leaned against the door of the shop, as if he were going to fall down if he didn't lean on something. The shirt was dirty, with an open neckline, and the collar was shrunk inside the coat while shrugging it out. It looked like he hadn't shaved his face in four or five days. He rubbed his nose, his face was so pale that he could barely see the slender scars. Eyes like two holes in the snow.

Depiction eye god cavity

>> Eyes were like two holes in the snow.

Describe food as not good→ dogs don't eat it

>> the burgers they made tasted okay, at least not so bad that they didn't even eat dogs.

>> eyes were not so deep, and they were so deep that they were almost for people to go in and find.

>> Bleached pig skin

>> Oyster white

Describes smooth hair

>> White hair is as smooth as a bird's feather.

>> Exquisite pastime

Describe the state of life without self (metaphorically speaking of dogs)

>> Sooner or later I'll figure out why you like to be a curly dog that's been raised.

Rewrite: With the tired twilight of the sky, the two of us took wordless steps towards our new home.

>> Tired twilight

It is implied that he used to pay the bills, describing the generous character of the person

>> And this time I was quick enough to pay the bill first

>> disappeared into the mist, for a moment his white hair sparkled in the light that shot out of a shop window.

Rewrite: A smile floats on his face

>> 浮

Depicting a woman in a bar

>> Those nasty women would dance, squeeze their eyebrows, clang their bracelets, and show off their packaged charms. At night, this charm will have a sweaty and sour taste, although faint, but it is unquestionable.

>> Golden butterflies flutter in a rose-colored mist

Describe the shattering of dreams that think you have caught something good

>> I climbed a brass circle and was surprised to find that it wasn't gold

Describe life reaching the culmination of glory

>> A person like me is brilliant once in a lifetime, and the swing frame is a perfect fly.

Describe hatred of people

>> he would cut her in two, with her head buried in the east and her feet buried in the west, a distance of one hundred and eighteen thousand miles.

Anthropomorphizing the tree shows the apparent shaking of the tree due to the wind

>> Didn't you hear the old eucalyptus trees across the street biting their ears? They reminisced about their days in Australia, with wallabies bouncing around under branches and koalas carrying each other on their backs.

Describe drinking a certain brand of coffee

>> Let's discuss with Mr. Nestlé and Mr. Yaha

Describe the process of carefully brewing coffee

>> Unscrew the hot water faucet, remove the coffee pot from the shelf, moisten the straw in the water, and pour the coffee into the container above. By this time the water was already steaming, and I filled the container below, put it on the fire, put the upper half on it, twisted it, and they swirled together.

The depictor does not have the extra strength to adjust the sitting posture

>> Slide into the seat

Depicting carefully brewing coffee

>> The coffee pot is about to bubble up. I turned down the fire and watched the water go up. The water lingered for a moment at the bottom of the glass tube. I turned the fire on, and as soon as the water had flooded the small hill, I turned it down immediately. I stirred the coffee, closed the lid, and set the timer for three minutes. Marlowe, very methodical guy. Falling down would not disturb his coffee-making process, even if an outlaw held a gun behind his back.

How to highlight the tension and describe another thing in detail to the extreme

>> Why should I go through so much detail? Because the tense atmosphere makes every detail stand out, it seems that it is a performance, a unique and extremely important action. It was a highly sensitive moment, and all your unconscious movements became incoherent acts of the will, no matter how accustomed you were to them. You seem to be a person who learns to walk after suffering from polio. Nothing is natural, absolutely not.

>> The coffee melted into the water, the air rushed in, making the usual hissing sound, and the coffee bubbled and gradually stopped. I removed the upper container and rested it on the leaky board with the base.

>> I sniffed and pulled open the magazine. It's full, not lacking.

Describe the process of killing time

>> spent two hours there, taking a steam bath, soaking, squirting, getting a massage, and making a few phone calls.

The depiction goes unnoticed

>> No one at the border checkpoint looked at me, as if my face was like a needle on the dial, usually not worth a look.

Describe the gentle sound of the waves

>> the waves were soft, as if the old woman was whispering a hymn.

Depict the youth's disdain for the world around them, and the youth is vigorous

>> Two ordinary people dressed in ordinary suits, their movements exuding their usual indifference and idleness, as if the world was holding its breath and waiting for them to order a dispatch.

Depict the eyes of the police

>> They have peeping and waiting eyes, patient and cautious, cold and contemptuous, eyes that only police have. Such eyes, when standing in the procession of the police academy graduation parade, they already have it.

>> Red-rimmed Sticky Notes (Sticky Notes)

Describe the dislike of a person

>> even if they just caught a glimpse of him across the entire restaurant, they couldn't help but want to punch his front teeth in.

>> eventually sold in the markets of Mexico City. The same old way of doing it. The money is exchanged for heroin and flowed back. In the eyes of the villains, this is part of a good-neighborly policy.

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