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A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever

A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever

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Fredric Koeppel
Jul 30, 2009
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What more could you ask for at 5:30 in the evening when it's not yet really twilight and rain is

beginning to fall on the roof of the screened porch than a martini, a bowl of little Tuscan crackers and the July/August issue of Poetry magazine? The martini is composed of 1 and 1/2 jiggers of Hendricks gin and about 1/3 of a jigger of Noilly Prat vermouth …

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