Passing the flapjacks with gregarious strangers at a bed-and-breakfast would be like starting the day in purgatory for me.

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The son writes that every miner's cabin had a "tin full of fermented dough, used in place of yeast in making bread, biscuits and flapjacks" hanging over the hot stove.

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There are the favored foods that he grew to abhor (Dover sole, Australian flapjacks, unripe plums, tinned sardines, fried tomatoes), the fear of swimming, his conviction (for a time) that he hated music, the "intimation of mortality" suggested by the taillights of cars receding down Park Avenue, the smell and touch of newspapers.

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