A Toad for Breakfast

A Toad for Breakfast

Zola once explained how to cope with times like these. One must buy a toad every morning and devour it alive and whole. Only after such a breakfast can one face the newspapers with a tranquil stomach, read and swallow the squalid contents, and withstand what would make normal people sick.


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