I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses. And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one, from whom I have not heard in years. β¨ Kurt Vonnegut (1969). Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death, Random House LLC
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