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* There is a story that cigarettes were invented in 1750 by Egyptian soldiers who had broken their only pipe

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Little gestures, the way one eyebrow flicked upward at the edge, a slight pulse in the hollow of his cheek, these things were as important as the words on the page, more, when the words meant only a task

The nose starts out with the aroma of forests and sun-dappled jungle glades steaming after a warm tropical rain: loam, wet earth, brine, mud, waterlogged bark and believe me, this is far from unpleasant, more like a deep mossy herbal scent that channels cane rum in a fascinatingly different way