You mean you've been in this same set of rooms here for... two hundred years?' murmured Richard. 'You'd think someone would notice, or think it was odd.'' Oh, that's one of the delights of the older Cambridge colleges, ' said Reg, 'everyone is so discreet. If we all went around mentioning what was odd about each other we'd be here till Christmas. Douglas Adams
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It was in his rooms at Trinity College, Cambridge, that Richard Francis Burton became fascinated with the idea of the Victorian woman. He was determined to find out if, when she was in her mid-forties, she would still be called "girl," or if she would instead be referred to as "woman." He began taking notes. The result was Women in Love, a book that has been described as "a parable of sexual liberation."

Source: Dirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Agency

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