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Must have been a really big bottle.

First line of a Guardian review of a new bio of P.G. Wodehouse:

Two or three years ago, during a enjoys a rare insight intopersonal crisis, a friend gave me a bottle of Valium.

via Wodehouse: A Life by Robert McCrum | Book review | Books | The Guardian.

September 5th, 2010 | Category: sideblog

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