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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Graves is a romantic and a stoic who believes that one way or another love ends badly. While no single image or object can encompass the trajectory of Graves' thoughts on love, there is a Spanish drink that comes close to it. It is called the sol y sombra (sun and shadow). It comes in two layers. The top half is brandy-masculine, dry, bracing; the bottom half is anisette -sweet, insinuative, treacherous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long E in Greek | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

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