'Don't look.'
'Don't look.'
"The bleached curl revealed its melanic root; the down turned to prickles on a shaved shin; the mobile moist mouth, no matter how I stuffed it with love, disclosed ignominiously its resemblance to the corresponding part in a treasured portrait of her toadlike dead mama; and presently, instead of a pale little gutter girl, Humbert Humbert had on his hands a large, puffy, short-legged, big-breasted and practically brainless baba."
'His mother was inconsolable and practically out of her mind with grief, and the feeling of guilt at being behind a desk while Clive had fallen in battle...'
Pro Bono Publico The Rise and Rise of a Very Liberal Democracy by Emil Miller
I enjoy it so far.
I'm glad you're enjoying it Olga and I look forward to your final verdict.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olga4real
"Any how he had a pair of old Pistolls, and he told me that they were a smuglar's once upon a time."
Unfortunately, the 23rd page of my book doesn't have sentences. If I were to chose an equivalent gathering of words it would be:
Know how it operates--
The question of our lost opportunity were now always present my mother could not leave it alone my father would sit solid in his chair and quietly rub the belly of his big black cat.
I hope the hotel has a decent bath.
What are you reading? A manual of some sort?Quote:
Originally Posted by Armel P
That made me laugh for no good reason whatsoever. :DQuote:
I hope the hotel has a decent bath.
Mine is very boring. -> "We haven't had time to make up a slide," she said, "so you will have to hand it round."
"Well, I spent the morning in my office, and in the afternoon I stood in for the director at a meeting with the Deputy Under Secretary. I'm a civil servant and I work for the Foreign Office."
The Fateful Circle by Emil Miller.
"Old Deacon Gookin was at domestic worship, and the holy words of his prayer were heard through the open window."
"Maybe it was the beer, but the absence of Cyprian was certainly part of it as well."
"You've just observed that, and everybody makes the same observation as you, and this machine, the guillotine, was invented for that."
Writing a paper on this book right now. I'm here to procrastinate, of course.
There were cattle cracking through the undergrowth, and the stillness of wild animals - all not to be seen.
"Harry så på ham." - Flaggermusmannen (book title in English: The Bat Man. It is originally a Norwegian book) by Jo Nesbø.
Freely translated: "Harry looked at him."