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What does this phrase from Ursula Le Guin's book "The Lathe of Heaven" mean?
On page 12 of the novel "The Lathe of Heaven", Dr. Haber offers Mr. Orr some cigarettes and says
"Do you smoke ? The brown filters are tranks, the white are denicks."
What do the words "tranks" ...
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