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bilby commented on the word electron cannon
"'Before I was born,' he said, 'my father left the circus to get out of poverty. He studied law and had a career; he opened his own law office. We had money, we were flush. It was the mid-sixties. My mother forced him to drive her and me on tour; we had a Vanguard Estate with a caravan and those yellow-and-black commercial plates. I can remember when we got a refrigerator - at that time the highway went only the first fifty kilometres toward Holbæk. Now that's all standard for welfare clients. And what do we do with our wealth? We watch television. One thing I've never understood: How do you go from the TV to the bed; how can you get something going with your beloved after staring into the electron cannon?'"
- 'The Quiet Girl', Peter Høeg.
March 19, 2008