The Lexicographer's Rules

"The CafŽ St. Pierre, a pleasant tree-filled spot where we often stopped for a drink, had the most impressively armed security guard I saw. He looked like a Sierra Leonean rebel. In addition to his machine gun he had an array of bullets crisscrossing his chest, probably because a couple of weeks earlier the previous security guard had been murdered while on duty. An attorney for the United Nations was dining there at the time of the murder and discovered that, while she was terrified, to others it seemed routine. 'The couple crouched under the next table began introducing themselves,' she told me incredulously. When she returned later that week to pay the abandoned bill for a half-eaten pizza, it was waiting with these words written on it: Les clients sont partis sans payer sur le coup de l'emotion, or 'The clients left without paying their bill due to an overwhelming bout of emotion.'"

—Fl‰neur. K.A. Dilday writes about Port-au-Prince, Haiti.'

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