'thinking that things looked exactly like other things'

[cimorene]

The farmhouse itself no longer looked like a beast about to spring. (Not that it ever had, to her, for she was not in the habit of thinking that things looked exactly like other things which were as different from them in appearance as it was possible to be.)

—Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

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[vass]

From the podcast Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap, at a point in which Ursula Vernon is describing one of the dogs' farts: "...with notes of Marmite."

[pensnest]

Cold Comfort Farm is a book I wish I'd written. I mean, I couldn't have written it, for a variety of reasons (like not being born at the time) but it always seems attainable, somehow.

Flora Poste for ever!

[cimorene]

Haha, I know exactly what you mean. Some stuff you love and can sort of see how it was done and some stuff you just love and definitely couldn't have written.

Aaaaand if I'm in a bad brain place the former kind is like "I should try writing something a bit like the thing I liked here sometime although knowing me I'll never finish it", but the other kind is like "Bleh why write something? It's not gonna be THAT good no matter what."