(It's better to create than destroy what's unnecessary)

Monday, October 26, 2009

Wolf Hall - pg. 68

'Look now, my lord,' he says, his voice playing up and down the diplomat's scales: he is frank, a man of the world, and his smile says, now Wolsey, now Wolsey, you're a man of the world too. 'They're young.' He makes a gesture, designed to impersonate frankness.


(recursive metaphor)

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