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High life

The pleasure and pain of reading

8 July 2023

9:00 AM

8 July 2023

9:00 AM

Gstaad

There are lurid rumours circulating around this Alpine village that an international literature symposium has taken place, with some of the richest and more recent arrivals demanding that the arch suspect behind the alleged outrage deny it or else. ‘Say it ain’t so, Joe,’ screamed a nightclub freak at the suspect right on Main Street.

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