He walked to the dressing table and tied his tie.
'Gawd blimey, ain't you dirty?'
'Dirty?' he rounded on her fiercely. 'Dirty? What the hell do you mean, dirty? I'm not a lousy old cow like you.'
'No? But you don't wash yourself in the morning.'
'Wash myself! Christ, I'm going to the barber's and have the whole works. Shave, shampoo, face massage, vibro, friction, and then I'm going to the baths and have a bake-out. I'm going to send my clothes to be fumigated and I'm going to the chemist to have a shot of 606 and even then I expect I'll have got every bloody kind of dose through kipping with you.'
"Author James Curtis brilliantly recreates the excitement of 1930s London as he delves into the sleazy glamour of the underworld web, a tangle of low level criminals and prostitutes. His vibrant use of slang is as snappy as anything around today, his dialogue cosh-like as the Gilt Kid moves through the pubs and clubs and caffs of Soho. Curtis knew his subject matter and this cult novel doubles as a powerful social observation."
'Dirty?' he rounded on her fiercely. 'Dirty? What the hell do you mean, dirty? I'm not a lousy old cow like you.'
'No? But you don't wash yourself in the morning.'
'Wash myself! Christ, I'm going to the barber's and have the whole works. Shave, shampoo, face massage, vibro, friction, and then I'm going to the baths and have a bake-out. I'm going to send my clothes to be fumigated and I'm going to the chemist to have a shot of 606 and even then I expect I'll have got every bloody kind of dose through kipping with you.'
"Author James Curtis brilliantly recreates the excitement of 1930s London as he delves into the sleazy glamour of the underworld web, a tangle of low level criminals and prostitutes. His vibrant use of slang is as snappy as anything around today, his dialogue cosh-like as the Gilt Kid moves through the pubs and clubs and caffs of Soho. Curtis knew his subject matter and this cult novel doubles as a powerful social observation."
Arsphenamine was originally called "606" because it was the sixth in the sixth group of compounds synthesized for testing; it was marketed by Hoechst AG under the trade name Salvarsan in 1910. Salvarsan was the first organic antisyphilitic, and a great improvement over the inorganic mercury compounds that had been used previously.
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