Brandy, he thought.
Actually, it was
carbolic acid.
Thus Philibert Faroux,
of Noroy, Oise,
outlived his spree by
a mere two hours.
Félix Fénéon
Novels in Three Lines
1906
(translated by Luc Sante)
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