“Like young men from the dawn of time, I decided to choose the risk of death over certain humiliation.”

— Ben Aaronovitch , book Whispers Under Ground

Source: Whispers Under Ground (2012), Chapter 1, “Tufnell Park” (p. 5)

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British television writer 1964

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