| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 45222 |
| QUOTATION: | Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexteritry the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronised, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Anthony Powell (b. 1905), British novelist. Afternoon Men, ch. 9 (1931).
Of Lola and Atwater. |
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