March 2010
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J. K. Huysmans: “The mouth organ”
From the novel A rebours (Against the Grain), 1884
For Francis Schwartz
He made his way to the dining-room, where there was a cupboard built into one of the walls containing a row of little barrels, resting side-by-side on tiny sandalwood stands and each broached at the bottom with a silver spigot.
This collection of liqueur casks he called his...
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