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Spasm couldn’t get laid if you sent him to a brothel with a blank cheque. He had his Lou Reed and his Bob Hope, but never his Nat King Cole.
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― Scumbo: Tales of Love, Sex and Death
― Scumbo: Tales of Love, Sex and Death
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On the whole popular fiction in Victorian Scotland is not overwhelmingly backward-looking; it is not obsessed by rural themes; it does not shrink from urbanisation or its problems; it is not idyllic in its approach; it does not treat the common people as comic or quaint. The second half of the nineteenth century is not a period of creative trauma or linguistic decline; it is one of the richest and most vital episodes in the history of Scottish popular culture.
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― Popular Literature in Victorian Scotland: Language, Fiction and the Press
― Popular Literature in Victorian Scotland: Language, Fiction and the Press
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