The Jade Figurine
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It is an ancient, single-story building with an unpretentious façade that gives it the distinctive look of a Chinatown tenement. Its barnlike interior is perpetually hot and stifling, even at night, and the smell of joss—perfumed incense—permeates the smoke-died air. There are scarred wooden tables scattered throughout with no semblance of schematic placement; the bar, which is set along the rear wall, ends abruptly two-thirds of the building’s width—for no apparent reason, since the other third... is blank. Over the backbar and on the walls of the room, fat pink ladies, naiads in diaphanous wisps of silk, pose obscenely amid blue names—an unintentional caricature of a scene from Dante’s Inferno. Eerie blue light from tiny lanterns on each of the tables gives an odd and ethereal quality to the people and to the furnishings.
You would think, then, with all of this, that the clientele of the Old Cathay would be of a singular type—the lower, native class, perhaps, such as the habitués of the Seaman’s Bar—and that it would be relatively quiet, and never quite full even on the weekends.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It is an ancient, single-story building with an unpretentious façade that gives it the distinctive look of a Chinatown tenement. Its barnlike interior is perpetually hot and stifling, even at night, and the smell of joss—perfumed incense—permeates the smoke-died air. There are scarred wooden tables scattered throughout with no semblance of schematic placement; the bar, which is set along the rear wall, ends abruptly two-thirds of the building’s width—for no apparent reason, since the other third... is blank. Over the backbar and on the walls of the room, fat pink ladies, naiads in diaphanous wisps of silk, pose obscenely amid blue names—an unintentional caricature of a scene from Dante’s Inferno. Eerie blue light from tiny lanterns on each of the tables gives an odd and ethereal quality to the people and to the furnishings.
You would think, then, with all of this, that the clientele of the Old Cathay would be of a singular type—the lower, native class, perhaps, such as the habitués of the Seaman’s Bar—and that it would be relatively quiet, and never quite full even on the weekends.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Bill Pronzini to read onlineMoreLess
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