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"Not a bit. But, on the other hand, they don't back up what I point out
must be done. I've written to the Times, you know, explaining the
whole thing--"
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We take the Daily Chronicle," said Bensington.
And the Times has a long leader on the subject--a very high-class,
well-written leader, with three pieces of Times Latin--status quo is
one--and it reads like the voice of Somebody Impersonal of the Greatest
Importance suffering from Influenza Headache and talking through sheets
and sheets of felt without getting any relief from it whatever. Reading
between the lines, you know, it's pretty clear that the Times
considers that it is useless to mince matters, and that something
(
indefinite of course) has to be done at once. Otherwise still more
undesirable consequences--Times English, you know, for more wasps and
stings. Thoroughly statesmanlike article!"
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And meanwhile this Bigness is spreading in all sorts of ugly ways."
Precisely."
I wonder if Skinner was right about those big rats--"
Oh no! That would be too much," said Redwood.
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