Excerpt from The Prey of the Gods, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel
It is generally acknowledged that of all the tasks society imposes on us, the effort to amuse a party of dinner guests when their powers of mastication are no longer put in requisition, is the one least likely to meet with success.
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