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She scarcely spoke at all and might have been one of those huge dolls which, when inclined backwards, say "Ma-ma" or "Pa-pa": though impossible to imagine in any position so undignified as that required for the mechanism to produce these syllables.
She scarcely spoke at all and might have been one of those huge dolls which, when inclined backwards, say "Ma-ma" or "Pa-pa": though impossible to imagine in any position so undignified as that required for the mechanism to produce these syllables.
Approximate author period: c. 1952 AD · modern
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- Anthony Powell
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- Approximate author period: c. 1952 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Anthony Powell: life dates 1905 to 2000. Wikidata Q573813, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q573813 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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