The Rock Pool" ... satire of the British upper class, a smug young literary man from Oxford joins an international group of artists and writers on the French Riviera, intending to study them as if they were aquatic organisms in a pool--with unexpected results."--Goodreads |
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Page 63
... talk like that - but it is so difficult , I can't find the man I like . " " Then you haven't got a lover ? " " No , of course not - but let us talk philosophy . Do you believe in the first cause ? " He thought of Rogers who used to ...
... talk like that - but it is so difficult , I can't find the man I like . " " Then you haven't got a lover ? " " No , of course not - but let us talk philosophy . Do you believe in the first cause ? " He thought of Rogers who used to ...
Page 65
... talk to you while you're drunk . Afterwards you can get drunk , but tonight you've got to talk to me . ' They all began to talk German very fast and Naylor couldn't understand them . Rascasse , Lola , the Corsican , Eddie - from - the ...
... talk to you while you're drunk . Afterwards you can get drunk , but tonight you've got to talk to me . ' They all began to talk German very fast and Naylor couldn't understand them . Rascasse , Lola , the Corsican , Eddie - from - the ...
Page 119
... talk like that about Foster -- of course he tried to get Toni to go with him and his wife back to Borneo but his ... talking to a woman - any woman- it's like a Catholic trying to make a convert ; why , she even got Lola to leave the ...
... talk like that about Foster -- of course he tried to get Toni to go with him and his wife back to Borneo but his ... talking to a woman - any woman- it's like a Catholic trying to make a convert ; why , she even got Lola to leave the ...
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