A typical interlude
D: Do you know what cricket bats are made of?
G: The souls of Victorian spinsters!
D: Is that your final answer?
G: Or wood.
D: Willow. There’s a Julian Barnes story where the man is standing in a sporting goods store, looking at all the cricket bats, when suddenly he farts, and says, ‘wind in the willows!’
G: Ha! Probably built the whole story around that one line.
D: Probably.
G: Back to the movie?
D: You betcha.
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