Word: nosegay
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...could be a setting in an R.K. Nayaran story. His Africa is as baleful as Conrad's and his London Waugh-like. Here, for example, is a man-about-town explaining how to ensure a successful dinner party: "I'm asking the poet and his wife only for the nosegay effect. A little bit of dead fern, to set the whole thing off." There are moments in this book-of-many-parts when the same could be said of Willie Chandran...