"With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a soft, brown swamp, and he had to close his own eyes for a second to get out of it.."

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Source : Patrick Süskind (2015). “The Pigeon”, p.21, Penguin UK

Patrick Süskind

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