“Dry again?' said the Crab to the Rock-Pool. 'So would you be,' replied the Rock-Pool, 'if you had to satisfy, twice a day, the insatiable sea.”

— Cyril Connolly, book The Unquiet Grave

Part I: Ecce Gubernator (p. 11)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)

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