Hooked on a vice and an old literary device

(Sydney Morning Herald) JEFFREY Eugenides is skulking around outside what he calls the only den of iniquity in downtown Princeton. It's a cigar shop called a Little Taste of Cuba, which is slightly ironic given that you can't buy a Romeo Y Julieta there because of the US embargo on trade with Havana.
''The reason it's a den of iniquity is all the guys go in there and they smoke cigars, the smoke pours out of the place and everyone walking by is horrified. Because everything else is pretty antiseptic in Princeton except this cigar store, and naturally I gravitate to it,'' says the American novelist, who is in the streets for better phone reception. Continued