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In “Parson’s Pleasure,” Bert, Rummins’s tall, one-eyed son, plays a mostly peripheral role. He is responsible for having painted the antique commode white to make it more attractive, which unintentionally concealed the commode’s immense value. In the end, he helps Rummins and Claud dismantle the piece, ensuring Cyril Boggis gets exactly what he claimed to want.
Bert Quotes in The Great Automatic Grammatizator
The The Great Automatic Grammatizator quotes below are all either spoken by Bert or refer to Bert. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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6. Parson’s Pleasure Quotes
‘And then there’s the patina,’ Mr. Boggis continued.
‘The what?’
He explained to them the meaning of this word as applied to furniture.
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In “Parson’s Pleasure,” antique furniture dealer Cyril Boggis attempts to scam farmer Rummins out of a valuable antique commode by convincing him it is merely an imitation of the real thing. This exchange follows Boggis’s “explanation” of how the commode’s wood has been processed with lime, which cheapens it. A skilled conman, Boggis overwhelms Rummins, Bert, and Claud with increasingly obscure jargon and details about furniture craftsmanship and counterfeiting, assuming they won’t question his supposed expertise. His mention of “patina” is particularly notable—not just in its technical sense, but in what it reveals about Boggis himself and how it functions Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia e
‘I’ll tell you one thing,’ he said, straightening up, wiping his brow. ‘That was a bloody good carpenter put this job together and I don’t care what the parson says.’
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This passage comes at the end of “Parson’s Pleasure,” just after Claud, Bert, and Rummins have severed the legs from Cyril Boggis’s antique commode and chopped the rest of the commode into firewood. Earlier, Boggis—an antique dealer and experienced conman—recognized the commode’s immense value despite its cheap paint job and set out to manipulate the farmers into selling it for next to nothing. He convinced them it was a worthless reproduction, but to further secure the deal, he claimed he only needed the legs and the rest of it was only good “for firewood.” When he leaves to retrieve his Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis
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Bert Character Timeline in The Great Automatic Grammatizator
The timeline below shows where the character Bert appears in The Great Automatic Grammatizator. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
6. Parson’s Pleasure
...smaller, dirtier farm, where he encounters three suspicious men—Rummins, the farm’s owner; his one-eyed son, Bert; and their neighbor, Claud—along with two greyhounds at their feet.
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...for the same elite distinction. He struggles to contain his excitement, aware that while Rummins, Bert, and Claud may be ignorant of the commode’s value, they aren’t fools. Casually, he comments...
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Because Bert had previously coated the commode in white paint, Rummins questions how Boggis could possibly identify...
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