Boxer, Beetle

by Ned Beauman

But it is not always so easy to separate a contempt for the streets on which a man was born from a contempt for the man himself.

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Meanwhile, Stalin believed that a world revolution should have a world language, and tried to learn both Pangaean and Esperanto. He failed, and decided to ban them from the Soviet Union,

The Welshman had told me, for once, to do most of the talking, because there was something about my cravenness to which he thought an old woman would probably warm.