From a review of Kate Bassett’s biography of Jonathan Miller, who apparently sprang from the mind of Monty Python:
As a Cambridge undergraduate he liked to turn heads by walking barefoot through the streets carrying a large marrow.
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Ellen Akins is the author of the novels Home Movie, Little Woman, Public Life, and Hometown Brew, and the short story collection World Like a Knife. She has published short stories in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, and The Southwest Review, which (the last two) awarded her their biennial short fiction awards. Read more