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Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on a lonely hill, where there were thirteen clocks that wouldn’t go, there lived a cold, aggressive Duke, and his niece, the Princess Saralinda. She was warm in every wind and weather, but he was always cold. His hands were as cold as his heart. He wore gloves when he was asleep, and he wore gloves when he was awake, which made it difficult for him to pick up pins or coins or the kernels of nuts, or to tear the wings from nightingales⋯. Wickedly scheming, he would limp and cackle through the cold corridors of the castle, planning new impossible feats for the suitors of Saralinda to perform. He did not wish to give her hand in marriage, since her hand was the only warm hand in the castle. — From The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber [17].
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Glynn, P.W., Whitt, W. (1999). Winning the Hand of the Princess Saralinda. In: Shanthikumar, J.G., Sumita, U. (eds) Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 19. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5191-1_16
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