Eric Scheske

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Random Passage from Reading

A Random Passage

This HLM passage cracked me up for some reason: "Once, in a Madrid cafÃ©, the two of us encountered a Spanish marquis who wore celluloid cuffs, suffered from pediculosis and had been drunk for sixteen years." Teachout, ed., The Second Mencken Chrestomathy.

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Great book, btw:

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