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Al cabo de un rato hacía tintinear la copa y se alzaba a proponer brindis tan barrocos y amanerados que, me figuraba yo, debían de ser parodias, quizá incluso de los mismos brindis, de la propia idea de brindar, de los brindis como liturgia de esa respetabilidad exquisita cuyas constricciones nos aprestábamos a destrozar.
As the meal went on he pinged his glass and stood to propose toasts so long-winded and mannered that I assumed he must be parodying someone, maybe even parodying toasts themselves, the very idea of toasts, toasts as the ur-liturgy of that exquisite respectability whose restraints we would soon be trashing.
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