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Those who do not love Fidel have few options: wait until he dies, or flee. Ricardo and Raul are scheming to escape by sea, when they are not drunk on bootleg rum. Quaffing cocktails and beer at Ernest Hemingway's old haunt, La Bodeguita del Medio in Old Havana, they rail against the system, unconcerned that they might be overheard. At 21, Ricardo is just out of prison after serving a nine-month term: he got drunk and spat on a statue of independence hero Jose Marti. Now he is officially a nonperson and unable to find...
...sacred ibis to our avid avi-culturists, I have been looking for its reappearance on the Cambridge scene. Having perched so long atop the Lampoon Building without inibision, the ibis should again be visible ibjdem. Then all Cantabrigians can shout the prophotic words of the ancient Ovid, "Medio tutissimus ibis," that is, "The ibis is most safely back in our midst...
...Medio Templo, Idibus Decembris...
...right in saying demand, command, castle, example, I won't undertake to decide; he certainly has much authority on his side. Perhaps, however, the safest way to shun the extremities represented by the Western haff and laff and the Yankee's parst and larst is to follow the medio tutissimus ibis rule of Ovid...
...medicus in Paradisum intret, fieri non potest.' Ab imo pectore suspirans, 'Et ego, Petre Sancte, vehementer, vehementissime quidem doleo,' oculis respondeo lacrimantibus, 'iter longissimum confeci, defessissimus sum, quoeam nescio. Nihilo secius portas reclude, ut interiora Paradisi saltem aspectare possim.' Portis patefactis interiora tota magnificentissima video, et mirabile dictu! in medio Paradiso Doctorem B. conspicor. 'Quid ita, Petre Sancte,' stupefactus exclamo, 'ibi est Doctor B. ipsum, in propria persona video.' 'Doctor B.? ubi?' Petrus, pariter admiratus, exclamat, 'Ibi, ibi! nonne vides?' 'Huncce?' exclamat Petrus, tollens cachinnum, 'Aha! iste non est medicus...
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