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    A Bottle of Old Wine
    A Bottle of Old Wine
    A Bottle of Old Wine
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    A Bottle of Old Wine

    By Richard O. Lewis

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      A Bottle of Old Wine - Richard O. Lewis

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Bottle of Old Wine, by Richard O. Lewis

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      Title: A Bottle of Old Wine

      Author: Richard O. Lewis

      Illustrator: Kelly Freas

      Release Date: September 16, 2009 [EBook #30004]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BOTTLE OF OLD WINE ***

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      A grim tale of a future in which everyone is desperate to escape reality, and a hero who wants to have his wine and drink it, too.

      A BOTTLE OF

      Old Wine

      By Richard O. Lewis

      Illustrated by KELLY FREAS

      Herbert Hyrel settled himself more comfortably in his easy chair, extended his short legs further toward the fireplace, and let his eyes travel cautiously in the general direction of his wife.

      She was in her chair as usual, her long legs curled up beneath her, the upper half of her face hidden in the bulk of her personalized, three-dimensional telovis. The telovis, of a stereoscopic nature, seemingly brought the performers with all their tinsel and color directly into the room of the watcher.

      Hyrel had no way of seeing into the plastic affair she wore, but he guessed from the expression on the lower half of her face that she was watching one of the newer black-market sex-operas. In any event, there would be no sound, movement, or sign of life from her for the next three hours. To break the thread of the play for even a moment would ruin all the previous emotional build-up.

      There had been a time when he hated her for those long and silent evenings, lonely hours during which

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