Originally Posted by issybird

It was the image of Marlon Brando lurching around the garden that gave it to me. From the book I mostly remember things that didn't make it to the movie, like Lucy Mancini's problem with her body.

Here's an easy seasonal one:

One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied.