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Olive paint 594 Posted 9 years ago
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Since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled

"Since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled."

Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's

Tears to mascara presumably refers to the similarity between the two, but what of the first the relationship between artifice and gin? What does this sentence mean?

  

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What do tears do to mascara? What does gin do to artifice?

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What do tears do to mascara? What does gin do to artifice?

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