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Sunday 20 July 2008

From "Anansi Boys" by Neil Gaiman

It took me a while to track this one down, because I couldn't find a pirated edition on line (full text), so I had to pull out my paper copy and find the quotation by memory. Luckily my memory for useless passages of text seems quite alright - so here it is, the bit I was reminded of by listening to Bob Marley...

Spider began to sing. It was "Under the Boardwalk."
It wouldn't have happened if Fat Charlie had not liked the song so much. When Fat Charlie was thirteen he had believed that "Under the Boardwalk" was the greatest song in the world (by the time he was a jaded and world weary fourteen-year-old, it had become Bob Marley's "No Woman No Cry")...

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