Sunset Boulevard: Decay and Decadence

Joe: the whole place…

had been given over to silence.

Joe: It was a coffin of a pool

and I was the dead body floating in it.

Joe: It was like

sleeping in a tomb.

Joe: The whole place seemed to

have been stricken with a kind of creeping paralysis,out of beat with the rest of the world, crumbling apart in slow motion.

Joe: The plain fact was

she was afraid of that world outside. Afraid it would remind her that time had passed her by.”