You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered …

Raymond Chandler
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You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was. ✨ Raymond Chandler (2002). The Big Sleep: A Novel, p.230, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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