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Paddy McAloon likes words like a dog likes lampposts, darting from one to the next, meandering back again, cocking his conversational leg to spray another shower of the things wherever they land. If McAloon’s conversation set out in a boat from Newcastle to Ireland it’d go via Africa with a few days off in Hawaii.

February 1, 1986
Sylvie Simmons

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