“I don't much care about tea-drinking in the afternoon; in the morning the stuff Jock brings to me in bed is like that Nepenthe which the wife of Thone gave to Jove-born Helena, but in the p. m. it always makes me think of Ganges mud in which crocodiles have been coupling.”

—  Kyril Bonfiglioli

Source: The Mortdecai Trilogy, After You With The Pistol (1979), Ch. 5.

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