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The Paranoids
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From The Crying of Lot 49 (novel by Thomas Pynchon), 1965.
“It's lovely,” said Oedipa, “but why do you sing with an English accent when you don't talk that way?”
“It's this group I'm in,” Miles explained, “the Paranoids. We're new yet. Our manager says we should sing like that. We watch English movies a lot, for the accent."