"Then he asked me what my plans were for the summer, and in the flush of some strong emotion or other I said, more or less: It's the beginning of the summer and I'm standing in the lobby of a thousand-story grand hotel, where a bank of elevators a mile long and an endless red row of monkey attendants in gold braid wait to carry me up, up, up through the suites of moguls, of spies, and of starlets, to rush me straight to the zeppelin mooring at the art deco summit, where they kept the huge dirigible of August tied up and bobbing in the high winds. On the way to the shining needle at the top I will wear a lot of neckties. I will buy five or six works of genius on 45 rpm, and perhaps too many times I will find myself looking at the snapped spine of a lemon wedge at the bottom of a drink. I said, "I anticipate a coming season of dilated time and of women all in disarray.""
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Ch. 1, Elevator Going Up
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Mysteries_of_Pittsburgh
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
25 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by The Mysteries of Pittsburgh →
Related Quotes
"When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunch…"
"It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology."
"I saw that I'd been mistaken when I thought of myself as a Wall, because a wall stands between, and holds apart, two …"
"Riding on a city bus along the route that you have taken from your job, from the movies, from a hundred Chinese meals…"
"The sky glowed and flashed orange, off toward the mills in the south, as if volcano gods were fighting there or, it s…"
"As a child, coming home at sunset through the infinite chain of backyards that led from the schoolyard to our house, …"
"She was unquestionably beautiful, and yet there was something odd, wrong, about her looks, her clothing: something a …"
"My worst nightmare was a boring nightmare, the dream of visiting an empty place where nothing happened, with awful sl…"
"All at once I liked him, his firm grace with others, his unlikely modesty, the exotic parties he attended. The desire…"
"An alcoholic is nothing if not sensitive to the proper time and place for his next drink; his death is one of the mos…"