Pansies (Lawrence)/The Oxford Voice

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THE OXFORD VOICE
When you hear it languishingand booing and cooing and sidling through the front teeth,     the oxford voice      or worse still    the would-be oxford voiceyou don't even laugh any more, you can't.
For every blooming bird is an oxford cuckoo nowadays,you can't sit on a bus nor in the tubebut it breathes gently and languishingly in the back of your neck.
And oh, so seductively superior, so seductively     self-effacingly     deprecatingly      superior.—We wouldn't insist on it for a moment     but we are      we are    you admit we are      superior.—
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