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@annedenoon.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 12:07 PM

An unusually tender passage from Julian Maclaren-Ross's otherwise hard-boiled 1947 novel Of Love and Hunger, about a man trying to sell vacuum cleaners, get off with a friend's wife, and also write a bit in a seaside town on the eve of WWII. 📚
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She laughed, but not so naturally as usual. Her laugh sounded a little forced. She'd no make-up on at all, with her skin pale and clear, her lips normally pink and her eyes only a little shadowed, she looked so different from the Sukie in my dream that I couldn't imagine making love to her or even wanting to. But then in the dream I hadn't made love to her. I had been in love with her. There's a big difference.

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