PIPE JACKET

On page 120, "He dropped the phone and took his pipe out of his mouth and tamped the tobacco with the brass cap of a heavy pencil. He did it carefully an solemnly, as if that was as important as anything he would have to do that day. He leaned back and stared at me some more." Along with the paragraph leading up to this, this is very descriptive. You get it as if you can touch the material and know what it's about. It has that type of connection.

On page 131, ""You'll have the drink and like it," he said. He mixed a couple and put mine down beside a red leather chair and stood crosslegged against the desk himself, one hand in the side pocket of his midnight-blue dinner jacket, the thumb outside and the nail glistening." Again very descriptive, only if I had a life narrator as detailed telling me things I forgot about that I'd want to remember.