“His voice, like a malted milkshake marinated for more than seventy years, has a slightly monotonous lilt - rather like a Hindu chanting Bagavad Gita.”

Description of Walter Battiss from her interview with Battiss published in the Just Jani column of the Sunday Times, republished in Face Value by Jani Allan.
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