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Title: You Don't Make Wine Like the Greeks Did

Author: David E. Fisher

Illustrator: Leo Summers

Release Date: April 6, 2010 [EBook #31897]

Language: English

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_"Every century has its advantages and its drawbacks," he said.
"We, for instance, have bred out sexual desire. And, as for you
people ..."_

YOU DON'T MAKE WINE
LIKE THE GREEKS DID

By DAVID E. FISHER

ILLUSTRATED by SUMMERS

On the sixty-third floor of the Empire State Building is, among others
of its type, a rather small office consisting of two rooms connected by
a stout wooden door. The room into which the office door, which is of
opaque glass, opens, is the smaller of the two and serves to house a
receptionist, three not-too-comfortable armchairs, and a disorderly,
homogeneous mixture of _Life's_, _Look's_ and _New Yorker's_.

[Illustration: Donald was determined to make Mimi go back to their
world--dead or alive!]

The receptionist is a young woman, half-heartedly pretty but certainly
chic in the manner of New York's women in general and of its working
women in particular, perhaps in her middle twenties, with a paucity of
golden hair which is kept clinging rather back on her skull by an
intricate network of tortoise-shell combs and invisible pins. She is
engaged to a man who is in turn engaged in a position for an advertising
firm just thirty-seven stories directly below her. Her name is Margaret.
She often, in periods when the immediate consummation of the work on her
desk is not of paramount importance, as is often the case, gazes
somnolently at the floor beside her large walnut desk, hoping to catch a
lurking image of her beloved only thirty-seven stories away. She rarely
succeeds in viewing him through the intervening spaces, but she does not
tire of trying; it is a pleasant enough diversion. There is an
electronics firm just five stor