“Great!” exclaimed Henriette. “Let’s all give praise to the male ego. Perhaps we can spend the rest of the evening getting melancholically drunk on gin, instead of doing something.”
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“The main highway from the western to the eastern side of this part of the Korean peninsula traverses some mountainous terrain. It does so through an impressive network of tunnels, the last and longest of which brings one into a different climatic zone. On this day, they entered the tunnel with clear skies and came out into a snow storm.”
“Gin and tonic!” the African woman blurted out. “If the British offer you something for free, take it with both hands, before they take something from you, like your whole country.”
She dissolved again into gales of laughter, and the Englishman joined in.
”That’s actually very near the mark,” he said. “Well, what do you say, folks? A drink, or your country?”
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