...All day, most of every night,
she walked and she drove.
Two or three times a day she walked in and out
of all the hotels in the Strip and several downtown.
She began to crave the physical flash of walking in and out of places,
the temperature shock,
the hot wind blowing outside,
the heavy frigid air inside.
She tought about nothing.
Her mind was a blank tape [...].
in 'Play it as it Lays', (1970), de Joan Didion, pag. 170.
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