She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bund…

Salman Rushdie
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She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite! ✨ Salman Rushdie (1989). The Satanic Verses, New York, N.Y. : Viking
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