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Under fuck up we have added the well-known opening lines to Philip Larkin's poem This be the Verse, the only use of fuck to be regularly found in dictionaries of quotations: They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
Look out for the Larkin House, at Jefferson and Calle Principal, home of the first (and only) United States Consul in the 1840s, as well as the Stevenson House, 530 Houston Street, where the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson lived for four months after his arrival in California in 1879.
There's much in the elegiac tone of this book that reminds me of Philip Larkin's collection All What Jazz?
Maggs is delightfully atmospheric and full of peel-away details, shit-rimmed cobblestones and stinking . The quaintly elaborate names--Percival Clarence Buckle, Mercy Larkin, Sophina Smith--are a lively match for Dickens' Uriah Heeps and Augustus Snodgrasses.
(The man builds the walls and woman plasters them) (Romero and Larkin 1994, 44).