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[desperance]

I have a letter to post, and Barry's asleep on my stamps. Well, on my desk, atop the heap of papers that must somewhere contain my stamps.

Would it be ridiculous to go out and buy new stamps? The old ones will still be good for later use, after all; and if I go to the post office for them, I can post the letter at the same time, and...

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The Chinese tell the same story of the Emperor Ai, who cut off his sleeve sooner than disturb Dong Xian, who was sleeping on it; a coded expression for homosexuality is still "the passion of the cut sleeve". Which-all I learned from la_marquise_de, who lent me a book...