Friday, 22 August 2008

Solemn word

…to this day I have his trick of rubbing one hand across the back of the other (when thinking deeply), and that I entirely lost my own habit of scratching my backside (when puzzled). Royalty – I have Bersonin’s solemn word for it – never claw at their arses to assist thought.



Royal Flash, p.129, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.




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