Lanark: A Life in Four Books

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.’

Eine meiner Lieblingsromane

"For good company, that one sure comfort of our failures and disappointments, is the sinking of our own personal pettiness in an overwhelming consciousness of common humanity; quickened, if possible, by a common appreciation of gin." 

D. Footman PIG AND PEPPER