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W.D. Clarke is on page 323 of 445
... he had written twenty lines of his poem on God, and the awful thing was that he’d practically proved the fact that God did exist... and he went on to wonder what would happen if God did exist—‘an old gentleman in a beard and a long blue dressing-gown, extremely testy and disagreeable as he’s bound to be? Can you suggest a rhyme? God, rod, sod—all used; any others?
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‘D’you mean to tell me you’ve reached the age of twenty-four without reading Gibbon?’ he demanded.

‘Yes, I have,’ she answered.
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W.D. Clarke is on page 153 of 445
[...] she was sitting alone, sunk in an armchair, reading a brightly-covered red volume lettered on the back Works of Henrik Ibsen...

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W.D. Clarke G. M. Hopkins to the rescue!
Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; Bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.



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