No. I think you're supposed to make it up. She's getting at authors who but in nuggets of undigested info just to show that they KNOW, Fleming going on about wines, the divine Donna Leon putting in descriptions of Italian food that the Commissario (is that his rank?) is about to eat, is eating, has just eaten. Though I would argue that the stuff about food is in fact integral to her evoction of Venice. I also think it has to be in prose, since these books are rarely if ever written in verse. I'm going to keep my powder dry until they actually ASK for a verse. Incidentally, the guy who ALWAYS wins didn't win this week, which lmost makes up for the fact that noneof us won either. Personally I thought saucy was just plain filthy, though none the worse for that.
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