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A hat flogging is what you get from your friends when you've said something daft or un-funny (old english).
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Aha! A bit like what Hardy used to do to Laurel.
I'm old (41 next month) and English but I didn't know it...
Anyway, nobody else has guessed at the quote so here's another passage. This will probably give it away.
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Guilford went to the globe his father kept on his office desk. The first tentative newspaper drawings had shown a ring or loop scrawled over the old maps. This loop bisected Iceland, enclosed the southern tip of Spain and a half-moon of northern Africa, crossed the Holy Land, spanned in an uncertain arc across the Russian steppes and through the Arctic Circle. Guilford pressed the palm of his hand over Europe, occluding the antiquated markings. Terra incognita, he thought.
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