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Cheese

Willem Elsschot

Form
Form Novella
Year
Year 1933
Originally in
Originally in Dutch
Pages
Pages 120

Thousands of round red Edams are sitting in a cold Antwerp warehouse, and every one of them belongs to Frans Laarmans, a shipping clerk who has never sold anything in his life. He has wangled sick leave from his office, named his new firm with an impressive set of initials, ordered the letterhead, chosen the desk, installed the telephone.

The Roqueforts and Gorgonzolas lewdly flaunted their mould, and a squadron of Camemberts let their pus ooze out freely.
Cheese, Willem Elsschot

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