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"I have always depended on the kindness of stranglers" is a gag designed to give the more bitter reader (who, again, needn't understand the line's real meaning) the thrill of cultural mastery – a sense of what it would be like to be so clever you can diss Tennessee Williams's sincerity at will.
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As the Salina family are faced with upheaval in 19th-century Sicily, Lampedusa gives his reader plenty of bitter food for thought: "Of course, love: flames for a year, ashes for 30".
(European readers may insert bitter laughter here—a gallon of gasoline in Washington costs a trifling $1.60).
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Still, that should be some comfort to bitter Song of Ice and Fire readers.
Zoo had seen a surprise circulation boost of 10% in the last six months of last year, after Time Inc shut Nuts and told readers to buy its once bitter rival.
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