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62 *** those high rollers eat pastries the kind with airy custard the kind with nuts and whipped cream and also the kind with cherries or something and marzipan now it’s smeared all over them! — that’s high on the hog for sure those Judases are kissing in pairs under archways and in threesomes in entryhalls they’re pulling stunts, and look at that like they’ve lost something and are searching for it now with special equipment they’re out of bounds by Semyon Khanin translated by Kevin M. F. Platt and Karina Sotnik *** glue’s not quite right and the eye color hair color height are slightly off go easy opening it at the border try to look honest and smile so the seams’ll be less obvious on the other hand the first and last name are magnifico and the age suspiciously young while the watermarks are so fine that there’s totally no reason to flinch if someone looks long and hard at your face by Semyon Khanin translated by Kevin M. F. Platt

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