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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 dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.

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Slowly, But Very Deliberately, The Brooding Edifice

Anthony Powell

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 dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.

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