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White talcum powder
is insidiously slippery: : :
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especially if your legs
are trapped: : :
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in a tenacious tangle of string:
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Yes, perhaps a bit naïve: : :
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but, for this very reason,
unpredictable:
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Killers never read murder mysteries,
fortunately:
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And Ariadne's Terrible String...
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the novel that was her inspiration,
had just been published in Philadelphia:
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It couldn't have been translated
into Italian yet: