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But in a clinch, you lot would rather watch someone suffer untold horrors than watch them enjoy so much as a cool drink if you don’t have two of your own, and yours have cherries in them as well as more ice and little paper umbrellas, and even then most of you would still prefer to take theirs and have three.
Space Opera
Catherynne M. Valente
Even though the new library was welcomed, many people worried that sharing books and being in close quarters could spread disease. The space was “cramped and inadequate . . . a menace to life,” according to the Los Angeles Herald. At the time, influenza, smallpox, and typhus were rampant in cities. One city official told the Los Angeles Times that anyone who checked out a book knowing someone in his or her family had a contagious disease was committing “nothing short of a crime.”
The Library Book
Susan Orlean
While I lay there not sleeping, I wondered why anyone, including myself, would pay such exorbitant prices for this. Then it struck me like a beverage cart to the knee. It wasn’t because the experience in the front was so great; it was because the experience in the back was so dreary.
Was My First-Class Airplane Seat Worth the Money? I’m Still Trying to Figure That Out - The Globe and Mail
Paul Patterson
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