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Two Views: On the Bottle And Its Contents

1/ Donald Barthelme, “For I’m the Boy” (1964):

The bottle was old and dirty but the brandy when Huber returned with it was tasty in the extreme.

2/ Grate­ful Dead, “Brown-Eyed Women” (1971):

The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean.

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