“Disneyworld…is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.”

"Suspended Animation", Tissues for Men (1980).

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humorist and writer from the United Kingdom 1938–2007

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