Holly Golightly: You know those days when you get the mean reds?
Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues?
Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you’re getting fat, and maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid, and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?
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The mean reds
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“Then wham! The phone rings.”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged book, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote on September 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
He picked a telephone out of the air and held it to his ear. “She says, this is Holly, I say honey, you sound far away, she says I’m in New York, I say what the hell are you doing in New York when it’s Sunday and you got the test tomorrow? She says I’m in New York cause I’ve never been to New York. I say get your ass on a plane and get back here, she says I don’t want it. I say what’s your angle, doll? She says you got to want it to be good and I don’t want it, I say well, what the hell do you want, and she says when I find out you’ll be the first to know.”
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote which is seamlessly, beautifully written, full of apartment life & cocktails & relatively harmless scandal, and makes a whole lot more sense than the fillum (though I concede I have only seen it once and it was a while ago – will have to watch it again before travelling).
