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Tuesday, 1 June 2010

Dropping my hammer and chisel

…her gown of crimson silk clung to a shape which English travellers are wont to describe as ‘a thought too generous for the European taste’ but which, if I’d been a classical sculptor, would have had me dropping my hammer and chisel and reaching for the meat.



Flashman's Lady, pp.100-01, Pan edition, 1979.



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