Friday, 10 December 2010

Blow out your kite



      I can’t begin to describe the effect of hearing that pleasant, half-amused, half-impatient American voice issuing from the copper-red hawk face with its feathered braids; it was like having a Chinese mandarin suddenly bursting into “Boiled Beef and Carrots”.


Flashman and the Redskins, p.336, Pan Books edition, 1983.





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