Hunter Graham’s Reviews > The Rum Diary: The Long Lost Novel > Status Update

…a man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.

The light in gambling rooms is not good for aging women. It catches every crease in their faces and every wart on their necks; drops of sweat between fallow breasts, hairs on a nipple momentarily exposed, a flabby arm or a sagging eye.

I got up early the next morning and went for a swim.