Desultory Notes – January 12, 2024

“No one ever glances at people sitting on benches.”
Georges Simenon
(Found in: The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City)

“Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips stark naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.”
The Company of Wolves
Angela Carter
(Found in: The Oxford Book of Villains)