"All in all, not a sound type. Nunn drew a box round her name in the Horse of the Year Calendar. He drew a scalloped edging round the box, then a box round the edging, and a line of loops round the new box, and a box round the loops. Then he surrounded the whole thing with a picture frame, and the picture frame with more boxing, scalloping, and loops, and the expanded version with another picture frame. Leaning very close to see what he was doing, he began to shade in the gaps between alternate sets of borders. One thing worried him as he worked. He knew for sure from his long years of dealing with subversion that anyone who got up a petition was merely acting as a front for some more sinister figure who remained unidentified. That was the man he really had to get at. Nunn turned over the possible names in his head."
The Tin Men Michael Frayn
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