The Cigarette Book by Chris Harrald

Author:Chris Harrald
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2011-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

Last gasps

The last cigarette is a cultural icon, a collision of the banal with the ineffable, whether offered to the dying man, the condemned man or, as in this fictional instance from Joseph Conrad, the man up against insuperable odds. D’Alcacer is captured by tribesmen and expects death. There’s only one thing to do in this situation. He resolves to ration his supply of cigarettes.

A cigarette was only to be lighted on special occasions; and now there were only three left and they had to be made to last till the end of life. They calmed, they soothed, they made an attitude. And only three left! One had to be kept for the morning before going through the gate of doom – the gate of Belarab’s stockade ...

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