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The great automatic grammatizator roald dahl, 1954 in someone like you, penguin books, 1970 summary of the story characters there are two main characters in the story, with a few other people getting the briefest of mentions. On the other hand, it can have a memory, can it not. The stories, with the exception of the war story katina, possess a deadpan, ironic, bizarre, or even macabre sense of humor. The great automatic grammatizator and other stories dahl roald on. The great automatic grammatizator is a short, sharp, chilling story from roald dahl, the master of the shocking tale. Find books like the umbrella man and other stories from the worlds largest community of readers.
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