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lissome

More lissom than any woman has the right to be. But that honking accent. She sounds as haughty, and inbred, as Princess Anne.

lmao

—p.307 Politics and the Bedroom…Not left wing enough (307) by Martin Amis
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literary England was controlled by a gay cabal

Norman’s answer was that his heterosexuality was so intense and impregnable that he was ideally placed to interpret its obverse. The story doesn’t end there, of course, and Norman would strike back, saying in an interview that literary England was controlled by a gay cabal headed by Christopher Hit…

—p.301 Hitchens Goes to Houston…He’s an ox (287) by Martin Amis
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you go back to being a passenger

‘Has anyone noticed? On planes, they’ve started calling passengers customers.’

Blue, at least, had certainly noticed it, and thought it comical; and for a while we found some diversion in a word-replacement game of the kind we often played…

‘ “The passenger is always right.” “Michelangelo Ant…

—p.297 Hitchens Goes to Houston…He’s an ox (287) by Martin Amis
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lachrymose

I was sure he wouldn’t be solemn, let alone lachrymose. He wouldn’t be spiritless. But what would he be?

—p.286 PART III—DISSOLUTIONS: ANTEPENULTIMATE: The Shadow-Line…Nobodaddy (259) by Martin Amis
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idiolect

And Christopher, with his extravagant idiolect…

—p.285 PART III—DISSOLUTIONS: ANTEPENULTIMATE: The Shadow-Line…Nobodaddy (259) by Martin Amis
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