Man braucht eigentlich nur die ersten zwei-drei Sätze eines Romans
zu lesen, um zu sehen, was er taugt, z.B.: ‘The Elite Café was entered by a
staircase from the foyer of a cinema. A landing two thirds of the way up had a
door into the cinema itself, but people going to the Elite climbed farther and
came to a large dingy-looking room full of chairs and low coffee tables. The
room seemed dingy, not because it was unclean but because of the lighting. A
crimson carpet covered the floor, the chairs were upholstered in scarlet, the
low ceiling was patterned with whorled pink plaster, but dim green wall lights
turned these colours into varieties of brown and made the skins of the
customers look greyish and dead.’
