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A Manual of Adjectives; Stiff


  A Manual of Adjectives   This thing started when an old man choked on a spear of asparagus. It was two thirty, early for a Madrid lunch. He and I were the only two diners at Perplejo. It was a modest old-time restaurant with white tablecloths, thin-edged gilt mirrors, and black-and-white portraits of famous […]

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