Moonhead
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She's actually paraphrasing CS Lewis, who once finished a lecture on Middle English literature (Chaucer, I think) with the line: "And then the Renaissance came along and ruined everything..." (Bit classier than those she cited for her reading list back when it looked like the GOP might find somebody sane to nominate as a Presidential candidate next year, I suppose...)
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I like to think he was eaten by rats, in the dark, during a fog. It's what he would have wanted... (Simon R Green on the late James Herbert)
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