In this case, it's Brigadier-General Sir Harry Paget Flashman, the bully and notable cad from Tom Brown's Schooldays. The quote is taken from George Macdonald Fraser's Flashman and the Tiger (1999)
Ah, I've heard about that recently (the author popped his clogs recently, yes? And was obviously sorely missed by many people at Radio 4, as I think I heard about five different obits...) I was going to give one a go, anyway; I shall put him on my list now. Especially as it's probably only the fact that you had Thomas Hardy in your .sig for ages that made me pick up Far From the Madding Crowd several years back...
The Broken Chronoclastic Infundibulator (for the highest aggregate wrong guesses at dates) goes to gothick_matt
Aww, thanks! I've always wanted one. And I've always been terrible at remembering dates.
Haruki Murakami's Wind-up Bird Chronicles (1997).
And would you recommend that one? Of all the excerpts, that was the one that made me want to keep on reading the most.
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Date: 2008-02-28 08:12 pm (UTC)Ah, I've heard about that recently (the author popped his clogs recently, yes? And was obviously sorely missed by many people at Radio 4, as I think I heard about five different obits...) I was going to give one a go, anyway; I shall put him on my list now. Especially as it's probably only the fact that you had Thomas Hardy in your .sig for ages that made me pick up Far From the Madding Crowd several years back...
The Broken Chronoclastic Infundibulator (for the highest aggregate wrong guesses at dates) goes to gothick_matt
Aww, thanks! I've always wanted one. And I've always been terrible at remembering dates.
Haruki Murakami's Wind-up Bird Chronicles (1997).
And would you recommend that one? Of all the excerpts, that was the one that made me want to keep on reading the most.