I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.The orchids are an excuse for the heat.Do you like orchids?Marlowe: Not particularly.Sternwood: Nasty things! Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, and their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption."Rocky narrowly lost a split decision (the decision was difficult o hear, but it appeared that two judges voted for the champ and one for Rocky) and the champ barely retained his title.Certain friends of yours were named also.Oh, nobody can prove anything about anybody as usual, but I""m warning you, little Alex, being a good friend o you as always, the one man in this sore and sick community who wants to save you from yourself.When they came to he edge of a steep cliff, Sparrow announced the distance remaining o get to the Fountain - they were "a day""s march north following hat river.