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Guinea-zilla

Roar!

 (BBC article)

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The English Way of Life vs Intrauterine Life.

The English instinctively admire the intrauterine way of life.  Being dark and surrounded by water appeals to their embryonic sense of humour.  And the irony of being protected from alien worlds by nothing more than a circulating system of one's own urine is not lost on them.

The fish is in the sea, and the sea is in the fish: even more so, the foetus is in her liqor and the liqor is in the foetus.  It is this quicksilver sense of irony that shapes their sphere and keeps England afloat on seas no longer ruled. 

As one Englishman has said 'we are conceived in irony.  We float in it from the womb.  It's the amniotic fluid.  It's the silver sea.  It's the waters at their priestlike task, washing away guilt and purpose an responsibility. 

Joking but not joking.  Caring but not caring.  Serious but not serious ...'

Alan Bennett (This Old Country)

Source-

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialities. 2003.
ISBN 0 19  8525 184

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