his great beard
“Zangiacomo conducted. He wore a white mess-jacket, a black dress waistcoat, and white trousers. His longish, tousled hair and his great beard were purple-black. He was horrible.”
—Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale, 1915.
black diamonds
“There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemcial relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as ‘black diamonds.’ Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property.”
—Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale, 1915.
The History and the Future of Olympic Art
millions of gray hairs
“I act quite young for my age sometimes. I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. It’s really ironical, because I’m six foot two and a half and I have gray hair. I really do. The one side of my head—the right side—is full of millions of gray hairs. I’ve had them ever since I was a kid. And yet I still act sometimes like I was only about twelve.”
—J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1951.
red hair
“People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.”
—J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1951.
partly yellow
“It’s no fun to be yellow. Maybe I’m not all yellow. I don’t know. I think maybe I’m just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn’t give much of a damn if they lose their gloves.”
—J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1951.
a people shooting hat
“ ‘Up home we wear a hat like that to shoot deer in, for Chrissake,’ he said. ‘That’s a deer shooting hat.’
‘Like hell it is.’ I took it off and looked at it. I sort of closed one eye, like I was taking aim at it. ‘This is a people shooting hat,’ I said. ‘I shoot people in this hat.’ ”
—J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1951.
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