unearths some literary gems.
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They said...they were from the aircraft carrier HMS Hermes. I cried out "OH! have you got any messages?" and they said what did I mean and I said that Hermes was the Messenger of the Gods and they muttered "Oh yeah?" and looked perplexed so I thought "you'd better cut out your Greek mythology bit, dearie."
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Haven't seen Maggie Smith for years, nor Fenella Whatsit.
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The rubbish that is going out nightly on our sets is unbelievably rubbishy.
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The food was rotten. They all said it was a LOVELY room. You can’t eat architecture.
[In a follow-up letter, KW second-guesses himself and says he shouldn't have said "architecture," since it was the interior decor that figured in the setup, which is technically not part of the architecture. But I like to think that on some level, he just knew when writing the first letter that it would come out funnier if he applied poetic license so as to use "architecture" there.]
