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aleatorius ([personal profile] aleatorius) wrote2016-09-04 08:45 pm

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поставил на телефон audible, типа дают бесплатную аудиокнижку, загрузил the mating season Вудехауза,
позабавило:

"Well, I suppose if I had been a Seigneur of the Middle Ages -- somebody like Childe Roland, for instance -- in the days when you couldn't throw a brick without beaning a magician or a wizard or a sorcerer and people were always getting changed into something else, I wouldn't have given the thing a second thought. I would just have said 'Ah, so Jeeves has had a spell on him and been turned into Catsmeat, has he? Too bad. Still, that's a life, and carried on regardless, calling for my pipe and my bowl and my fiddlers three.

But nowadays you tend too lose this easy outlook..."