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'Now, you dear good old Ratty,' said Toad, imploringly, 'don't begin talking in that stiff and sniffy sort of way, because you know you've got to come. I can't possibly manage without you, so please consider it settled, and don't argue-it's the only thing I can't stand.
You surely don't mean to stick to your dull fusty old river all your life, and just live in a hole in a bank, and boat?
I want to show you the world! I'm going to make an animal of you, my boy!"

- at the end of a traumatic week, this bally well dashed me speechless.
Kenneth Grahame-the genius of one prodigiously troubled escapist.

CB