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" Tell me, ' he continued, 'would it be true that you are an itinerant dentist and that you came on a tricycle?'
'It would not, ' I replied.
'On a patent tandem?'
'No.'
[...]
'Then maybe you are no ...dentist at all, ' he said, 'but only a man after a dog licence or papers for a bull?'
'I did not say I was a dentist, ' I said sharply, 'and I did not say anything about a bull. "

Flann O'Brien , The Third Policeman


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Flann O'Brien quote : Tell me, ' he continued, 'would it be true that you are an itinerant dentist and that you came on a tricycle?'<br />'It would not, ' I replied.<br />'On a patent tandem?'<br />'No.'<br />[...]<br />'Then maybe you are no ...dentist at all, ' he said, 'but only a man after a dog licence or papers for a bull?'<br />'I did not say I was a dentist, ' I said sharply, 'and I did not say anything about a bull.