Six months at most after they get here, these young people - and they are mostly young who come - have lost every idea they had, except flirtation and temperature. (Thomas Mann)

Six months at most after they get here, these young people - and they are mostly young who come - have lost every idea they had, except flirtation and temperature.

Thomas Mann

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