The low dive had set a standard that only middle-aged hooligans could remember and to which they looked back as Mrs Lot at Sodom. (Quentin Crisp)

The low dive had set a standard that only middle-aged hooligans could remember and to which they looked back as Mrs Lot at Sodom.

Quentin Crisp

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