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'...Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.'
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Part 1, Chapter 2

 

Evelyn Waugh

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To stare into the after-light, the glitter left on the lake's surface,
When the sun has fallen behind a wooded island;
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Held up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward;
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