I'd like the coffin to be white, and I want it specially lined with satin. White... or pink. Maybe red! Bright flaming red! Let's make it gay!
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It was a great big white elephant of a place. The kind crazy movie people built in the crazy 20s. A neglected house gets an unhappy look. This one had it in spades. It was like that old woman in "Great Expectations". That Miss Havisham in her rotting wedding dress and her torn veil, taking it out on the world, because she'd been given the go-by.
Joe Gillis: Stop crying, will you? You're getting married. That's what you wanted.Betty Schaefer: I don't want it now.Joe Gillis: Why not? Don't you love Artie?Betty Schaefer: Of course I love him. I always will. I... I'm not in love with him anymore, that's all.Joe Gillis: What happened?Betty Schaefer: You did.
The last week in December, the rains came. A great big package of rain. Oversized. Like everything else in California.