“. . . where admittance of priests and soldiers was strictly forbidden by a "Swiss Guard" at the entranceway and the waiters were dressed as academicians; in this spirit, as I daintily double-fist a black coffee and a glass of calvados, sitting with fountain pen & paper in a dark, smokey corner of Le Chat Noir c.1882, I speak to you.”

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