unearths some literary gems.
From Knife in the Dark, by G. D. H. and Margaret Cole:
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[From the foreword. A nice twist on the usual boilerplate!]
Stamford University is a dream University, situated in a dream town....It follows, therefore, that those who inhabit it are also dream persons, and can bear no relationship to any real human beings, alive or dead.
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an excitable lady who combined a passion for sitting on committees with an absolute inability to arrive on time or with the right agenda to any of them
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"Oh," said Mrs. Lancing, an immensely pregnant Oh. Then she added: "Oh."
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"Oh, so you haven't seen him lately, then," said Mrs. Lancing in italics.
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"Now remember what I told you!" Mrs. Lancing said in a final squeak. "I wonder what exactly it was she told me," Mrs. Warrender mused.
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delivery boys who seemed to be proceeding rapidly from nowhere to nowhere
