Quote of the Week, Supplemental: Bay City Blues

I sat down on the bunk again. It was made of flat steel slats with a thin hard mattress over them., Two dark gray blankets were folded on it quite neatly. It was a very nice jail. It was on the twelfth floor in the new city hall., It was a very nice city hall. Bay City was a very nice place. People lived there and thought so. If I lived there, I would probably think so. I would see the nice blue bay and the cliffs and the yacht harbor and the quiet streets of houses, old houses brooding under old trees and new houses with sharp green lawns and wire fences and staked saplings set into the parkway in front of them. I knew a girl who lived on Twenty-fifth Street. It was a nice street. She was a nice girl. She liked Bay City.

 - Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake, p.133 in Later Novels & Other Writings