Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

Something had happened to those German officers, and what had happened was not pretty. They had, it was said, been kidnapped by the Samaritan’s stokers and burned alive in the furnaces.

Punching Nazis straight to hell.

But suddenly the Calle Nicaragua rose up to meet him.

Sidewalks are sneaky bastards.

a little girl was playing with an armadillo.

Do you want leprosy? Because that's how you get leprosy.

Higher, on a terrace of the Palace (because it was also the ayuntamiento) a soldier stood at ease with a rifle: on a still higher terrace dawdled the tourists: vandals in sandals looking at the murals.

“I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours.”

Scarface,

1932, starring Paul Muni

What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?