The East Midlands
Place
English region invoked as a tailoring judgement on Mark Wankstain. Geography here functions chiefly as sartorial insult.
Appears in
- Helix Folt, the Conservative chapters:
From the books (1 passage)
Mr Crass Cheseham and his companion are beckoned by the Eastville Lady Macbeth over the nasty vulgar little threshold, and led through the nasty common little vestibule into the gaping maw of all that is cheap and beige and petty and nasty and frenkly dighnright unacceptable. They are bid by that paradigm of feminine respectability to make themselves as comfortable as possible upon the unpleasant naugahyde divan in the grotty…