Senior Common Room he felt reassured: not a Lineament of Gratified Desire to be seen." - Meaning and context.">
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Changing Places ([1975] 1978), ch. 1, p. 27.
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Looking around at the faces of his colleagues in the Senior Common Room he felt reassured: not a Lineament of Gratified Desire to be seen.

— David Lodge

What It Means

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About David Lodge

David Lodge (28 January 1935 – 1 January 2025) was an English comic novelist and literary critic. For twenty years, he was Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham.