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Uncle Philip "launched a great, cracking blow at Finn's head." "Launched" is an aeronautical and calculated verb, with connotations of a projectile along a planned trajectory, and the hard consonants of "cracking" enact the impact phonetically.. "

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Do I keep a boarding house for dirty beatniks? Do I? Do I?" The rhetorical tricolon of questions is a performance of authority, legitimising what has already happened, rather than being a question looking for an answer. His provision is the premise from which his right to strike is derived.