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And one more for the road – excerpts from Roddy Doyle’s latest

‘Two More Pints’, by Roddy Doyle

20 September 2014

9:00 AM

20 September 2014

9:00 AM

9-12-12

— See the spacer died.
—Wha’ spacer?
The Sky at Night fella.
—Bobby Moore.
—Patrick Moore.
—That’s him, yeah. Did he die?
—Yeah.
—That’s a bit sad. He was good, wasn’t he?
—Brilliant. Very English as well.
—How d’yeh mean?
—Well, like — he’d look into his telescope an’ his eyebrows would go mad cos he was so excited abou’ all the fuckin’ stars an’ the planets an’ tha’.









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