James Branch Cabell book The Cream of the Jest
Source: The Cream of the Jest (1917), Ch. 14 : Peculiar Conduct of a Personage
“In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren’t. Searching.”
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