The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one.
It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back to hit you.
Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in layers of rustling tissue paper, lay something they'd always longed for but couldn't ever grasp.