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Universal Dependencies - English - LinES

LanguageEnglish
ProjectLinES
Corpus Parttrain
AnnotationAhrenberg, Lars
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Honest Guv' I had both hands tied behind my back. Neither my mother nor my father were able to cope with the 1960s. Skirts were too short, hair was too long, and the favoured colour combination of purple and orange made my mother look like a vampire and my father a Matisse. They were peculiarly ill-placed for the general assault on the past that the Sixties represented because they lived in Liverpool. Liverpool, that should have slumbered its way through the Sixties as it had every other decade, produced the Beatles. My parents were victims of the Merseybeat. I was born in a tug-boat. My mother whelped me in a mess of blankets while my noctivagant father towed in the big ships. Perhaps it was the seriousness of our business that pushed us both into laughter, extremes of emotion so easily tumbling into their opposites. Yet there was relief for us to find a human face behind the monster mask; the monster wife, the monster mistress, and what about the monster man? Tell the story as it happened.

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