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Dictated

  • Writer: John Service
    John Service
  • Dec 31, 2024
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jan 30


All London theatres are equipped with bars. They vary between the luxurious and the doleful. Some are large and well attended; others are cramped cubby-holes supervised by elderly ladies who function at a speed dictated by the more advanced forms of rheumatism.


Adrian Bailey, ‘Len Deighton’s London Dossier’, Jonathan Cape, 1967

 
 
 

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