A LIBRARY OF FOLDED CORNERS

I drank a bottle of Falcon beer. It had a plain label. There were no boasts about choice hops and the stuff had won no medals at any international exposition but is was cold and tasted like every other beer.

—Charles Portis, The Dog of the South
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