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grahamcook

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Rhys again, not PB.

 

The paradise word here reminded me of the last lines of one of the best fishing stories ever told, about an angler who'd died and gone to heaven.

 

 

"Then do you mean that I have got to go on catching these damned two-and-a-half pounders at this corner forever and ever?" The keeper nodded. "Hell!" said Mr. Castwell. "Yes", said his keeper

 

G.E.M. Skues "Mr. Theodore Castwell" [1947]

"What did you expect to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically...?"

 

Basil Fawlty to the old bat, guest from hell, Mrs Richards.

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