<...> the sight of a... «The Golden Spiders»
perseveration20 апреля 2015<...> the sight of a pretty girl provokes in him an overwhelming reaction of appreciation and approval, and correlatively his acquisitive instinct, but he has never married. Why not? Because he knows that if he had a wife his reaction to pretty girls, now pure and frank and free, would not only be intolerably adulterated but would also be under surveillance and subject to restriction by authority. - Nero Wolfe on Archie's reaction to women
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