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“Since he had given up men he had taken up geography. He visited a new sight or a new neighborhood nearly every weekend.”

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“And suddenly it was all too much for him. He felt sad and misplaced, with the abrupt, overwhelming, dizzying sadness that comes over people in countries not their own, which has none of the richness of feeling that usually comes with sadness but is rather a kind of exhaustion.”

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“No radio, no telephone,” Melinda observed. “No mod cons whatsoever in Hloubetin, are there.” “We have a hamster,” Jacob said. “Not traditionally considered an amenity.”

Hamster Amenity

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“I just remembered. My hamster is loose.” “Is that a thing to say to a nice girl?”

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“Would you fancy a shag?” “Is that like a scrum?” “It could be.”

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“It sounds disgusting, in my opinion, ‘stuffing,’” she continued. “I’d never heard of it before Rafe told me. To put your fingers inside a raw bird. It’s the sort of thing they did on the frontier, isn’t it.”

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“To find the spirit of change—was that it?—after the change had happened.”

Spirit Of Change

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“The beer was cheap, the fiddling sharp, and the dancing sweaty.”

Dancing Beer Fiddling

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