{"id":"01KG078CMBKDBC9C8M0KEW2DWB","cid":"bafkreiannuq23ful65xufmqbbdv65ntsaj45dv3xj3p6oi4kn3txg2m3je","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":2370,"extracted_at":"2026-01-27T17:15:40.755Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 4","source_file":"01KFYTG9MG93RTB6YAW34V48XG","start_line":2319,"text":"  2220\tthis Blanchard guy was pretty good. He had this big château and all on the Riviera, in\n  2221\tEurope, and all he did in his spare time was beat women off with a club. He was a real\n  2222\trake and all, but he knocked women out. He said, in this one part, that a woman's body is\n  2223\tlike a violin and all, and that it takes a terrific musician to play it right. It was a very\n  2224\tcorny book--I realize that--but I couldn't get that violin stuff out of my mind anyway. In a\n  2225\tway, that's why I sort of wanted to get some practice in, in case I ever get married.\n  2226\tCaulfield and his Magic Violin, boy. It's corny, I realize, but it isn't too corny. I wouldn't\n  2227\tmind being pretty good at that stuff. Half the time, if you really want to know the truth,\n  2228\twhen I'm horsing around with a girl, I have a helluva lot of trouble just finding what I'm\n  2229\tlooking for, for God's sake, if you know what I mean. Take this girl that I just missed\n  2230\thaving sexual intercourse with, that I told you about. It took me about an hour to just get\n  2231\ther goddam brassiere off. By the time I did get it off, she was about ready to spit in my\n  2232\teye.\n  2233\tAnyway, I kept walking around the room, waiting for this prostitute to show up. I\n  2234\tkept hoping she'd be good-looking. I didn't care too much, though. I sort of just wanted to\n  2235\tget it over with. Finally, somebody knocked on the door, and when I went to open it, I\n  2236\thad my suitcase right in the way and I fell over it and damn near broke my knee. I always\n  2237\tpick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something.\n\n<!-- [Page 51](arke:01KFYTACATTJ3H8HCMN0J0M8QC) -->\n  2238\tWhen I opened the door, this prostitute was standing there. She had a polo coat\n  2239\ton, and no hat. She was sort of a blonde, but you could tell she dyed her hair. She wasn't\n  2240\tany old bag, though. \"How do you do,\" I said. Suave as hell, boy.\n  2241\t\"You the guy Maurice said?\" she asked me. She didn't seem too goddam friendly.\n  2242\t\"Is he the elevator boy?\"\n  2243\t\"Yeah,\" she said.\n  2244\t\"Yes, I am. Come in, won't you?\" I said. I was getting more and more nonchalant\n  2245\tas it went along. I really was.\n  2246\tShe came in and took her coat off right away and sort of chucked it on the bed.\n  2247\tShe had on a green dress underneath. Then she sort of sat down sideways on the chair\n  2248\tthat went with the desk in the room and started jiggling her foot up and down. She\n  2249\tcrossed her legs and started jiggling this one foot up and down. She was very nervous, for\n  2250\ta prostitute. She really was. I think it was because she was young as hell. She was around\n  2251\tmy age. I sat down in the big chair, next to her, and offered her a cigarette. \"I don't\n  2252\tsmoke,\" she said. She had a tiny little wheeny-whiny voice. You could hardly hear her.\n  2253\tShe never said thank you, either, when you offered her something. She just didn't know\n  2254\tany better.\n  2255\t\"Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jim Steele,\" I said.\n  2256\t\"Ya got a watch on ya?\" she said. She didn't care what the hell my name was,\n  2257\tnaturally. \"Hey, how old are you, anyways?\"\n  2258\t\"Me? Twenty-two.\"\n  2259\t\"Like fun you are.\"\n  2260\tIt was a funny thing to say. It sounded like a real kid. You'd think a prostitute and\n  2261\tall would say \"Like hell you are\" or \"Cut the crap\" instead of \"Like fun you are.\"\n  2262\t\"How old are you?\" I asked her.\n  2263\t\"Old enough to know better,\" she said. She was really witty. \"Ya got a watch on\n  2264\tya?\" she asked me again, and then she stood up and pulled her dress over her head.\n  2265\tI certainly felt peculiar when she did that. I mean she did it so sudden and all. I\n  2266\tknow you're supposed to feel pretty sexy when somebody gets up and pulls their dress\n  2267\tover their head, but I didn't. Sexy was about the last thing I was feeling. I felt much more\n  2268\tdepressed than sexy.\n  2269\t\"Ya got a watch on ya, hey?\"","title":"Chunk 4"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG0725N1AW73BK692GT6CGC5","peer_label":"13","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KFXT0KM64XT6K8W52TDEE0YS","peer_label":"More Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":1,"created_at":"2026-01-27T17:15:41.282Z","ts":"2026-01-27T17:15:41.282Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}