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The most excruciating thing was probably their stern, dogmatic, peremptory tone, quivering with repressed indignation

his face permanently clenched in a rictus of irritation

All things come to an end, including the night. I was dragged from my saurian lethargy by the clear, resonant voice of Captain Chaumont.

He was such a firm believer that he spent the last years of his life writing an exegesis of the Bible – the one sacred text that was really available to him

Over the years, the rise of the far right had made things a little more interesting. It gave the debates a long-lost frisson of fascism