Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls - читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги автора Robert Rankin (ч. notes)

Примечания

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It was a case of either Multiple Personality Disorder or Demonic Possession, depending on your particular belief system. However, given events which are soon to occur, it is safe to assume the latter.

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2Actually, Stevie Ray Vaughan got an even bigger sound out of his Strat by fitting it with heavier strings. Some even up to .013 gauge. (These things matter.)

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This of course being John's heated swimming pool and John's Rolls Royce. For managers get twenty-five per cent.

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He was never confused with the other Norman Hartnell, because no one could remember who the other Norman Hartnell was.

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Please bear this in mind.

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Poetic off licence

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The one with the cartoon Einstein motif.

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As a matter of interest, it would be one of Zorro's descendants who, as a paper boy himself, would one day punch Tripper number one upon the nose.

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Douglas Fairbanks, probably.

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For those few who might be unaware of the fact, the borough of Brentford is enclosed within the boundaries of a triangle, formed by the Great West Road, the Grand Union Canal and the River Thames. Things do go on outside this triangle, but not things of very much interest.

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The very same view pictured on the ever-popular postcards.

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Lest the discerning reader think to spy a monstrous plothole looming, yes, Soap did run into Pooley earlier in the evening. Just after he'd made his escape from the police station. Which was just before Jim reached John's house. Which was when he told Jim about Branson being on the poundnotes.

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And also, evidently, a master of disguise. For he bore no resemblance at all to the John Omally positively identified from the surveillance video footage of him leaving the Flying Swan with Soap Distant.