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The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles.

Evelyn Waugh

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Evelyn Waugh
Age: 62 †
Born: 1903
Born: October 28
Died: 1966
Died: April 10
Autobiographer
Diarist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh
Everywhere
Horizon
Tropic
Sky
Settings
Sparkled
Round
Madder
Sun
Glorious
Suns
Though
Rounds
Simultaneously
Like
Christmas
Shells
Setting
Aviation
London
Dozen
Baubles

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