It is an aristological triumph. The Romans, as all men know, dined in their later days on a stupendous scale, and defied all the rules of aristology by their abominable excesses.

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He muttered, “Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw. I give up. Either this guy is the invisible man or, or...or I don't know what. Or this is all a conspiracy and you're all involved, or something. Fuck...me.”