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Hey, Brits. You Be The Judge:

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"At last you yielded up the album, which, once open, sent me distracted."

— local idiom? poetic compression? or awkward phrasing?

And where are you from, then.

― Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Thursday, 13 October 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

Hard to say. It does make idiomatic sense, but it's an unusual construction. Larkin does this sometimes and I read it as part of the tightness of his style.

I grew up in the Midlands, but I've lived in Hull for the last 18 years.

― Don King of the Mountain (noodle vague), Thursday, 13 October 2005 07:37 (twenty years ago)


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