She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound. ✨ Raymond Chandl…

Raymond Chandler
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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound. ✨ Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). Raymond Chandler Speaking, p.32, Univ of California Press
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