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Gilbert is stationed in a small village in Lincolnshire while working
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START: GILBERT (to audience). Now I, like every Jamaican man, am adept at taking in the whole spectacle of a woman in the blink of an unsuspecting eye. It is hard to say whether this is a training or a natural-born gift.
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END: GILBERT (to audience). Man, that pie taste good. Partly because it came from her hand, partly because it was the first thing I had eaten in England that did not look like it had been eaten once before. Why the British boil up everything? How they built an empire when their army march on nothing but mush should be one of the wonders of the world.
Edmundson, Helen. Small Island. Nick Hern Books, electronic edition, 2019, pp.74-78
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