er Sommer schleppt sich dahin, wie meine viel zu geringe Lesezeit. Woolrichs I Married A Dead Man schon vor über einer Woche beendet. Unbedingt noch mehr von Woolrich, dem Hitchcock-Vorlagen-Lieferanten, lesen. Umfangreicher Wortschatz, das merke ich immer bei der Lektüre im Original und wie oft ich Wörter nachschlagen muss. Todtraurige Geschichte das. Gut. Während vermutlich…
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Leitwort: Cornell Wollrich
Cornell Woolrich: I Married A Dead Man – S. 870 – 871
»She’d never cared much for fiction, somehow. Something about it made her lightly uncomfortable, perhaps a reminder of the drama in her own life. She liked things (her mind expressed it) that had really happend. Really happened, but long ago and far away, to someone entirely else, someone that never could be confused with herself….
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Cornell Woolrich: I Married A Dead Man – S. 806
»She was like a doll propped upright in its gift-box, and with one side of the box left off, to allow the contents to be seen. A worn doll. A leftover, marked-down doll, with no bright ribbons or tissue wrappings. A doll with no donor and no recipient. A doll no one bothered to claim.«…
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