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unearths some literary gems.
***"If you want me to write your Column on Crime just say the word and I'll put you on our redundant list--with pleasure.""To be redundant with pleasure is preferable to being redundant without."***"D'ye think Ah came up the Clyde in a wheelbarrow?"[This rhetorical question was new to me! But I see that it's part of a whole "thing": https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/sndns901]***"Please don't be offended if I say I am beholden to you...whatever that might mean."***"If it's any of your business I'd also inform you that it's none of your business."***"But I couldn't see the wood for the trees...and I planted the forest myself."***"Give me a ring later in the day and maybe we'll marry your vague notion to my vague notion."***"Don't play the fool?""Why not? I'm good at it."***[Bonus: From a review of a different Carmichael book, excerpted on the dust jacket of this one: "He zigs when you expect him to zag, but never fails to arrive at a zonko ending." Who knew that the way to one-up the zigging/zagging trope was by employing a zonko!][Also: The protagonist sometimes says "De-da...de-da...de-da," in the sense of "etc., etc." or "yada yada." I've never heard this before, and I don't know whether it has general currency.]
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