I looked at my watch. Nine fifty-four. Time to go home and get your slippers on and play over a game of chess. Time for a tall cool drink and a long quiet pipe. Time to sit with your feet up and think of nothing. Time to start yawning over your magazine. Time to be a human being， a householder， a man with nothing to do but rest and suck in the night air and rebuild the brain for tomorrow.
—The Lady in the Lake， Novelist， Raymond Thornton Chandler
我看了眼手表，九点五十四分。是时候回家换上拖鞋，下上一盘棋了。是时候喝一大杯冷饮，静静地抽一斗烟了。是时候架起双腿静坐，放空大脑了。是时候看着杂志，打打哈欠了。是时候成为一个人，成为一家之主，成为一个无所事事，只是沉醉在夜色中休息，为明天养好神的人了。
——《湖中的女人》雷蒙德·桑顿·钱德勒，小说家