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I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She went into the bath; I went through the door.

Kingsley Martin
War, Reading, Men
Kingsley Martin (1960). “Critic's London diary: from the New statesman, 1931-1956”
I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She went into the bath; I went through the door.