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"For a few months he shuttled back and forth between Berlin and New York...always bearing gifts of a radiant strangeness -- Slinkies, watches for deep-sea divers, a wireless that woke you with a cup of instant coffee."
I can't imagine what "a wireless that woke you with a cup of instant coffee" is...
a wireless that woke you wih a cup of coffee? 
; in some parts of the world they might do a similar thing with instant coffee.
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