“He didn’t have his top hat on when Swanny met him but he certainly does now. It’s an impresario’s chapeau, like his limo. Glossy, black and stretched. He wears a sharkskin suit today. He should look ridiculous in the daytime, but it’s as though he’s brought night into the room with him.”

“He didn’t have his top hat on when Swanny met him but he certainly does now. It’s an impresario’s chapeau, like his limo. Glossy, black and stretched. He wears a sharkskin suit today. He should look ridiculous in the daytime, but it’s as though he’s brought night into the room with him.”

— Chandler Klang Smith