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the slack-jawed hermaphroditic spawn of Bretton Woods

He says: We have balboas. We have bahts. We have drachmas. The slack-jawed hermaphroditic spawn of Bretton Woods.

—p.314 Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt
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freshers were being taught to row

The feet look after themselves. The mind contemplated sometimes Le Suicide, sometimes the verbal interactions which might coax £1,300 from the world, while the feet crossed the High, walked down Oriel Lane, turned into Merton Street, passed between Merton and Corpus into Christ Church Meadow, and p…

—p.311 by Helen DeWitt
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taking 4 LA-London London-LA flights

Sometimes you do things people totally don’t get. Like, why would Jake Noszaly ever not fly first class? Why would you conceivably not fly first class London-LA? Something you discovered by accident, if you fly Virgin Atlantic, Premium Economy, Upper Deck, 76A, phantom passenger in 76B, it’s very v…

—p.263 by Helen DeWitt
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a suicide bowel bomber

it didn’t start too well at the border. there was almost an international incident. I rushed through a police line nearly causing them to draw weapons -too lazy to shoot and my clown like shouts of ‘toilet! Toilet!’ and no doubt the extreme look of terror on my face -after local water drank due to …

—p.229 by Helen DeWitt
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to make sure the traders are at work

So I thought: Right. So what I did was, first I invested in poker software to familiarise myself with the game. I then registered with Casino.com. Now, I will say that it was uphill sailing, I experienced more setbacks than I would have anticipated, to be honest at one point I was £2500 down and I …

—p.223 by Helen DeWitt