Eat body leave head

Peter Fischer and Molly Malone, keen anglers, in Scene 69 of The Fecund Trout, are having a picnic on the edge of a lake. Or is it a puddle? They've arrived there by Molly's Humber 90 shooting brake which she inherited from her uncle Howard Hawk.

Peter: Have some more.

Molly: Oh I can't. I really can't.

Peter: You know what I like? These autumn evenings. Finish work. Pack a picnic. Catch fish.

Molly: Shore of lake.

Peter. Puddle.

Molly: Puddle.

Peter: Eat body, leave head.

Molly: Leaves him something to think with?

Peter: Dead right.
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