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Usenet Posted 22 years ago
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Veined with iron

"In proper novels people
say things like, 'I am veined with iron, with
silver and with streaks of common mud.
I cannot contract into the firm fist which
those clench who do not depend on stimulus.'
Google has pretty much convinced me that the 'veined in iron' quote is an invention of Haddon's, but can anyone confirm? Or is it a mis-remembering of something real - perhaps from Ted Hughes' Iron Man / Iron Giant?

John Dean
Oxford
  

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[nq:1]"In proper novels people say things like, 'I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud. anyone confirm? [/nq] Sounds like a paraphrase of a mummer's play - "My head is made of iron, my body lined with steel" - spoken variously by the Valiant Soldier or the Turkish Knight.

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  • [nq:1]"In proper novels people say things like, 'I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud.
  • anyone confirm?
  • [/nq] Sounds like a paraphrase of a mummer's play - "My head is made of iron, my body lined with steel" - spoken variously by the Valiant Soldier or the Turkish Knight.
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[nq:1]"In proper novels people say things like, 'I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud. ... anyone confirm? Or is it a mis-remembering of something real - perhaps from Ted Hughes' Iron Man / Iron Giant?[/nq]
Sounds like a paraphrase of a mummer's play - "My head is made of iron, my body lined with steel" - spoken variously by the Valiant Soldier or the Turkish Knigh
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