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But, set to those notes, it's a fine example of the transformational properties of music--the perfect opening for Maschwitz's rueful accumulation of sophisticated memory-joggers--"wild strawberries only seven francs a kilo," "the waiters whistling as the last bar closes," and so on.
Membership, Gill says with a rueful laugh, is between 15,000 and 20,000.
One aspect of the reward was that they would presumably enjoy the actual testing more--fewer rueful beer descriptions along the lines of "urine" or "get it away!"
It apparently never occurred to even one of these overpaid scribes to eliminate Hopkins' rueful realization that he'd "never write the great American novel"--no kidding, given his flagrantly Welsh accent.
But when the book was reissued in 1987, Glazer wrote an introduction full of rueful reflections.