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How does a grasshopper look to a Coventry slum child who has never been out in the country before?
As he crawled through the hedge to look, the quickset above him was suddenly all alive with wings; and poking his nose in the flowering weeds beyond he saw, two inches away from his streaming hay-feverish eyes, a head like a maniac horse’s with disk-like eyes you couldn’t tell what he was thinking and legs like enormous jointed derricks.
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© 1984 Patrick Swinden
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Swinden, P. (1984). Richard Hughes. In: The English Novel of History and Society, 1940–80. Studies in 20th Century Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17512-3_2
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