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“Let’s go, then.”
“‘Into the valley of Death rode the six hundred.’”
“Will I have to listen to you recite poetry all the way to Hampstead Heath?”
“No. Sorry.”
“Who was that, Browning?”
“It was Tennyson.”
“Still living?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Mmmph.”
Barker believes that all poets should have the decency to be dead at least a century or two. I feel the same way about politicians.