Evading Assassins

I'm fleeing an armed mechanic with one task in mind so I rush into a hotel lobby wherein I might have hundreds of modes of escape. I choose to hop into a glass elevator without turning toward the door such that my face is fully visible. Then, I elect refuge on a window washing scaffold rather than simply running down a random number of floors and finding egress at a side, or by this time, the front exit. Did William Faulkner write this screenplay?