That, and an awful lot of Camel Lights, drifting in thin smoke down Albert Street.
"If it's just oblivion," he says, exhaling the words though thin smoke, "then I don't care.
After two days on the road, the Ford rolled into Agua Prieta around midnight, the brakes squealing and the transmission burping thin smoke.
An hour's drive south-west of Melbourne, the tall thin smoke stacks of the Shell oil refinery are the first sign of industry as you approach the outskirts of the city.
Among the entrees, we liked the tender mesquite-smoked ribs, with barbecue sauce on the side, and the thin smoked pork chops, a bargain at $7.50 for two chops that filled the plate.
If exercise tapes, dietetic meals, nicotine lozenges and personal finance apps worked by themselves, we'd all be fit, thin, smoke-free and rich.
Other winners: tomato or mushroom soups, crackling thin smoked salmon potato pancakes, crabcakes, chicken pot pie (add salt and pepper), calf's liver with bacon, ginger-pecan tart, chocolate pudding and Budapest coffeecake.
A long, thin, smoked sausage with a distinctive pink colour, normally sold in jars or cans.
A second carpaccio was equally stunning: tissue paper-thin smoked Sicilian swordfish with truffle oil, lemon and an arugula chiffonade twinned with equally thin slices of seared veal in caper aioli.
The feast begins with paper-thin smoked turkey with truffle sauce and continues with the tris (triple) of samples of truffled primi piatti, an incredible soup of funghi porcini (Boletus edulis) and two pastas, sublime gnocchi with a gorgonzola-based sauce and tortellini with a sauce of tordi (thrushes), all with grated truffle.
Indeed, John Durkin, the chef-owner, made frequent forays into our cozy quarters bringing free tidbits for diners to try: a crisp wafer-thin smoked mozzarella pizza one night, triangles of crisply fried mozzarella sandwiches another, warm doughnut holes rolled in cinnamon sugar or tiny samples of fudgy brownies with a mini-scoop of banana ice cream at the end of the meal.
