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"Londons a dull town," said Magnus, ... "Its easy to live in," he said, "but the airs flat and stale and the people half-hearted. Theres nothing to do there. You can make love without trouble or meaning, or get mildly drunk, or extract second-hand emotions from the cinema, or put your mind to sleep on a dance-floor, or play bridge, or throw yourself in front of a train on the Underground. There are forty ways of escaping from consciousness. But I want something more exciting than that."
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Eric Linklater




