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noun
Once he had read the last word of the Encyclopædia Britannica and memorized the huge dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy, and when he lost all interest in the vicarious disasters of his soap operas, he knew it was time to die, and wanted to do it with dignity.
Als er die letzte Zeile in der Encyclopaedia Britannica gelesen und das Lexikon der Königlichen Akademie zu Madrid auswendig gelernt hatte und als er jegliches Interesse an den Heimsuchungen der Telenovelafiguren verloren hatte, begriff er, daß es an der Zeit war, zu sterben, und wollte das mit Würde tun.
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