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Universal Dependencies - English - LinES

LanguageEnglish
ProjectLinES
Corpus Parttest
AnnotationAhrenberg, Lars
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The easy fraternity of working men was comfortable to him. No one here asked him what school he had attended. 'Is something wrong?' said my father. My father used to tell me I had an octopus-complex. 'Must you try and do eight things at once?' I used to imagine that there was an octopus, hooded, ancient, floating in the limp waters of my body, reaching out, dark and blind, using the tentacles to probe what stood outside it. Analogies fail, but I am capable of behaving like an eight-armed cephalopod while protesting the innocence of my two hands on the table. His father, my grandfather, was killed in a war farce when an American torpedo scuppered the wrong boat. As a result, my grandmother was paid a sizeable pension and was able to have her wild strong son privately educated. She poured her money into him as though he were a treasure chest. He learned well, looked well, and if anyone questioned him about his Mersey terrace two up two down he simply knocked them out.

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