"'One thing about parents. They fug you up.'
'Do you think they mean to?'
'They may not. But they do, don't they?'
'Yeah, but it's not really their fault, is it?'
'You mean like in Zola – because they were fugged up in their turn by their own parents.'
'Good point. But you've bot to blame them a bit, haven't you? I mean, for not realizing they were being fugged up, and going on and doing it to us as well?'
'Oh, sure, I'm not suggesting that we shouldn't go on punishing them.'
'You had me worried for a bit.'"
– Julian Barnes, Metroland
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