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Francis Bacon: Everybody, this is George. This is Muriel, Isabel, the beautiful Henrietta, and Deakin. Introduce yourselves. George is a little shy.
George Dyer: Hello...
John Deakin: So... who's Arthur and who's Martha?
Muriel Belcher: Oh, piss off, Deakin! I'm really sick of it!
John Deakin: I'll talk to you after you've had a shave...
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Francis Bacon: There's a fleeting substance to reality. Ghostlike deposits. Sometimes, a man's shadow is more in the room than he is. The void which spreads across his face as he daydreams is the void of death.
Hamish Bowles
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