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and they are armed.
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And they have been-- they have snuck through this tunnel
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that's been being built underneath, in their sneaky ways,
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and then they pop up with their guns.
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And the thing that's so ludicrous, talk about national stereotypes,
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is that in this novel the soldiers, at least the avant-garde,
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the first people arriving, are dressed as French waiters
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and under their large dirty napkins--again,
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this is the British image of the French,
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those large-- are sneaky weapons
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that they have been building and then hiding.
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And, of course, they rush out, they seize Dover,