the green tables

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'Round the green tables, faces without lips, the lips
Drained of all colour; clench of toothless jaws, unrest
Of hundreds of demonic fingers clutching the chips,
Searching the empty pocket or the pounding breast;'

'Charles Baudelaire (1821'1867), from The Gaming Room, as translated by George Dillon, 1936.

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