Vivian Stanshall - Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980)

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The gutters leaked like secrets, and the rain rained rain like rain...

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If I had all the money I've spent on drink — I'd spend it on drink.

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Gentlemen, I am a bulldog, and you will find my bark is worse!

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Frankly, once I've eaten a thing, I don't expect to see it again.

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That was inedible muck, and there wasn't enough of it.

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English as tuppence, changing yet changless as canal-water, nestling in green nowhere, armoured and effete, bold flag-bearer, lotus fed Miss Havishambling, opsimath and eremite, feudal-still reactionary Rawlinson End. The story so far. (Dot dot dot.)

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Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party...

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Do you know what a palmist once said to me? She said: WILL YOU LET GO!

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This unasked-for jollity in the middle of an English afternoon left Sir Henry shivering with a red passion, his face a crumpled tissue on which a lobster might well have wiped its bottom.

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Seems a novel enough way to commit suicide. Pass me m' pistol. See if I can't bring the blighter down in the lake.

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A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.

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Mercifully, Henry hit him with the soft end of the pistol.

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