“The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves.”

— Quentin Crisp, book The Naked Civil Servant

Source: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 13

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