The Channel is a slipper-bath of irony through which we pass these serious Continentals in order not to be infected by their gloom. (Alan Bennett)

The Channel is a slipper-bath of irony through which we pass these serious Continentals in order not to be infected by their gloom.

Alan Bennett

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