Illustration from Cakes, Cake Decorations and Desserts (1896)
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When people always
try to take
the very smallest
piece of cake,
how can it also
always be
that that's the one
that's left for me?
-- Piet Hein, Grooks (ca. 1940-1963)
modern scholarship