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    04.21.06

    Dashiell Hammett Explains Poker For You

    posted by Absinthe | 6:25 PM

    “That’s the part I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling.”

    - The Maltese Falcon

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