The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men. (Raymond Chandler)

The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.

Raymond Chandler

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