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Coffee at Gunpoint

In Praise of Coffee Italian Coffee at Sea Coffee at Gunpoint

 

"The coffee-maker was almost ready to bubble. I turned the flame low and watched the water rise.  It hung a little at the bottom of the glass tube. I turned the flame up just enough to get it over the hump and then turned it low again quickly. I stirred the coffee and covered it. I set my timer for three minutes. Very methodical guy, Marlowe. Nothing must intefere with his coffee technique. Not even a gun in the hand of a desperate character."


by Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

 

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