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billiards, the smell of cigars in some underground tobacco shop, a tavern room, a back staircase quite dark, all sloppy with dirty water and strewn with egg-shells, and the Sunday bells floating in from somewhere.... The images followed...

what is highlighted is sinking. They are all concerned about self-packaging on the outside, but their insides are sloppy. They are like rubber balloons filled with air. There are too many hypocrites. Their words and actions are too light...

Wow. [George sighs deeply] [George's voice] A $2 million life insurance pay. And she almost made it, too. That's sloppy. Can't have witnesses. That's rule number one. Make it look like an accident. Everything you own is old and leaky...

라고 말한다. 내가 허허 웃으니 그녀도 같이 따라 웃었다. 헤밍웨이가 당시 게으르고 뭔지 서투르다는 뜻이 내포된 슬로피(Sloppy)가 앞에 붙은 〈죠 바〉에서 술집주인과 무척 친하게 지냈다고 한다. 그는 무명작가 시절(1930년) 바다낚시를 좋아해서...