“Try as I might, I could never feel any great affection for a man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska – sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within.”

—  C. P. Snow

Francis King Yesterday Came Suddenly (London: Constable, 1993) p. 83.

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