Merely Thoroughly Outrageous
He made the discovery with a certain amount of relief, since it took him at least out of the region of pure fantasy and into the merely thoroughly outrageous, with which as a modern he was by now more or less familiar.
— Margery Allingham, 1952
From the book The Tiger in the Smoke
© 1952 Margery Allingham Carter
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