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So far so good, darling.

The true humour of life, Julia thought, should illuminate, not shut out, its essential melancholy, its macabre elements, and its fleeting moments of unbelievable elation.

“Literary cliques,” said Desmond in his dirge-worthy voice, “were invented after the disappearance of bear-baiting.”

Opening line: “But don’t you think, Miss Grampion,” said the professor behind the long, wide table, “that palatal dipthongisation in fourteenth century Kentish may have been optional?”