"...the British pound, alas, goes spiralling down to emerge as a pistareen. You don't know what a pistareen is, Jacqueline? You know what it sounds like, but not what it is. It is a debased coin, and as such the best symbol of the age in which we live, all of us together in the soup, under the soupistareen."
"...the British pound, alas, goes spiralling down to emerge as a pistareen. You don't know what a pistareen is, Jacqueline? You know what it sounds like, but not what it is. It is a debased coin, and as such the best symbol of the age in which we live, all of us together in the soup, under the soupistareen."
- Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola