"And once the novelist has brought us to this state, in which, as in all purely mental states, every emotion is multiplied ten-fold, into which his boo...
She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.
~ Marcel Proust ~
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She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.
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