Alan Bennett

about an old people’s home...

“Pets is what you want in this place. Else babies. Summat you can... (She makes a stroking movement) do this with. Not have to talk to.

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It’s no game is this.

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We’re the pets. Fed and cleaned out every day. It’s a kennels is this.

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Pedigree Chum. Pedigree Chum.”

from "Waiting for the Telegram"
Talking Heads 2 by Alan Bennett
BBC, London, 1998
Page 92