Passage of the Day

From The Russian Girl by Kingsley Amis

'What, darling? Oh, she's a Russian girl he met through his college thing. It seems she's a poet, and he thinks she's a good one. Well, he'd know, I suppose. The story on her, or on them ...is that he's meant to be getting a lot of poets and people together to get somebody out of prison somewhere in Russia. Er...does that sound likely to you?'

'No, and I can't understand it, either. How do you mean, get some poets together to get someone out of a Russian gaol? Are they going in by parachute? In which case why poets? They're about the last - '

'Well it doesn't sound likely to me, darling,' said Cordelia.

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I laughed out loud on the train. The vision of English poets rescuing anyone out of a Russian Gaol amuses for hours.