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“Guess she wasn’t paying attention and the smudge pot tipped over. Next thing they knew, the kitchen was on fire.”

So is my other favorite: Stila Smudge Pot in “Black Cat.”

It's a part of an old smudge pot - oil is burnt inside it to help get rid of frost on crops.

This could be worth resaying if Shaw or Stoppard were in the pulpit, but despite First Reader Plummer's acute rendering of Doctorow's wry, sardonic and satiric sermon, Drinks Before Dinner is a smudge pot of a drama that never blazes into revelation.

He sits in his study, smoking like a smudge pot and talking to his many friends by telephone.