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1022.

The narrow window opposite the bed had a blue neon sign hanging outside it; the sign flashed on and off, making an ominous buzzing noise.

Margaret Atwood,The Edible Woman, McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, Montreal, 1969, p. 251.

TIME: mid-1960's

PLACE: Toronto, from a shabby hotel room.

 

1023.

Somebody in the next room flushed a toilet; the gurgling of the water in the pipes swirled through the air of the room and died away with a sound between a sigh and a hiss.

Margaret Atwood,The Edible Woman, McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, Montreal, 1969, p. 254.

TIME: mid-1960's

PLACE: Toronto

CIRCUMSTANCE: in a shabby hotel room.


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