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below the Alpine Sudetenwaltz,
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and had taken up rooms in the Grand Budapest,
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a picturesque, elaborate,
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and once widely celebrated establishment.
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I expect some of you will know it.
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It was off season and, by that time, decidedly out of fashion,
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and it had already begun its descent
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into shabbiness and eventual demolition.
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What few guests we were
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had quickly come to recognize one another by sight
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as the only living souls residing in the vast establishment,
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although I do not believe