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He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were...
Author:
Salman Rushdie
Book:
The Enchantress of Florence
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Published at:
3 years ago
He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.
( Salman Rushdie )
[ The Enchantress of Florence ]
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