"Marylou was a pretty blonde with immense ringlets of hair like a sea of golden tresses; she sat there on the edge of the couch with her hands hanging in her lap and her smoky blue country eyes fixed in a wide stare because she was in an evil gray New York pad that she'd heard about back West, and waiting like a longbodied emaciated Modigliani surrealist woman in a serius room."

Jack Kerouac, On the road

No sé cómo habrán traducido ésto al castellano, pero seguro que no tiene la misma fuerza.