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“Reason I ask is, our vicarage moved to a bungalow on the Upton road, but that was only a stopgap. Tell Mum to have her agent give Francis a tinkle before it’s advertised anywhere. Mum’d rather do business with a friend than with some outsider she wouldn’t know from Adam. Remember those ghastly Crommelynck characters who foisted themselves onto us? So you’ll tell her? Promise me, Jason? Scout’s honor?”

It might be going too far to say that heaven is other people, but I will never not love the interchanging of spirit, or the quasi-religious experiences that can be shared with someone you don’t know from Adam.

And as we know from Adam Smith this leads to an increase in output.

Who Jared Fullerton is I don’t know from Adam; but I bet he’s cut from the same pattern Clarence and Joe were.”

The room contained neither of these, but one stranger, and him I didn’t know from Adam.