That bit in The Great Gatsby where it's hot as all fuck

[Vodkafone]

It's donkeys since I read this, but I've been remembering it all day. Such a vivid piece of writing; the lethargy, indecision, sweat, bad temper, passive aggression and Tom being a racist cunt (a 'beast' if I remember right). I love how a passage from a book from years ago can embed itself in the memory and float up at the appropriate time.

[Magnum Valentino]

I've a few of these. Ian Fleming was a cunt and hated women but he was able to really nicely capture the sensations of particular situations in those Bond books, two of which include walking across a casino and waking up on a plane in the early morning, both of which I seem to remember as though I'd lived them.

[Norton Canes]

Meant to start a thread about descriptions of hot places/heatwaves in literature. Ian McEwan makes a decent job of it in the first part of Atonement. The Go-Between is similarly set mostly in a stifling British summer, isn't it?

[Phoenix Lazarus]

I've a few of these. Ian Fleming was a cunt and hated women but he was able to really nicely capture the sensations of particular situations in those Bond books, two of which include walking across a casino and waking up on a plane in the early morning, both of which I seem to remember as though I'd lived them.

I'll add getting your buttocks whipped to a bloody pulp.

[touchingcloth]

Read To Build a Fire if you fancy trying to cool down vicariously.