AtD 224 Spoiler (?)

[Dave Monroe]

   "'On this island,' she went on, 'as you will have
begun to notice, no one ever speaks plainly.  Whether
it's Cockney rhyming codes or the crosswords in the
newspapers--all English, spoken or written, is looked
down on as no more than strings of text cleverly
encrypted....'" (AtD, Pt. II, p. 224)

Cf. ...

   "Given the British genius for coded utterance ...."

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