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  1. 25-Oct-2011, 19:19 #1
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    Default and run a bookmaking operation out of his chambers.

    Banks wants to empty the prisons,
    fill our streets with hoodlums...

    and run a bookmaking operation
    out of his chambers.


    What's "out of his chambers" mean?
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    Default Re: and run a bookmaking operation out of his chambers.

    Banks is a lawyer or judge . He wishes to use his chambers, his working office, as a base for a bookmaking operation.
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    Default Re: and run a bookmaking operation out of his chambers.

    Note that he will not be producing novels or works of non-fiction -- bookmaking in this context would refer to illegal gambling.
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