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December 21, 1968

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Thunder Under the Kalahari or, Aliquid Novi Ex Botswana?

S. J. Perelman

Story inspired by London Times article about the discovery of truffles in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana, formerly Bechuanaland. The author had met Monk …