a little language humor
21 Feb 2003 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimorenethe authoress was just saying impressively to her companion:
"--ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?"
"joyce has freed us from the superstition of syntax," agreed the curly man.
"scenes which make emotional history," said miss heath-waruburton, "should ideally be expressed in a series of animal squeals."
"the d.h. lawrence formula," said the other.
"or even dada," said the authoress.
"we need a new notation," said the curly-haired man, putting both elbows on the table and knocking wimsey's bread on to the floor. "have you heard robert snoates recite his own ferse to the tom-tom and the penny whistle?"
lord peter with difficulty detached his atthention from this fascinating discussion to find that miss tarrant was saying something about mary.
--from clouds of witness, by dorothy l. sayers
"--ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?"
"joyce has freed us from the superstition of syntax," agreed the curly man.
"scenes which make emotional history," said miss heath-waruburton, "should ideally be expressed in a series of animal squeals."
"the d.h. lawrence formula," said the other.
"or even dada," said the authoress.
"we need a new notation," said the curly-haired man, putting both elbows on the table and knocking wimsey's bread on to the floor. "have you heard robert snoates recite his own ferse to the tom-tom and the penny whistle?"
lord peter with difficulty detached his atthention from this fascinating discussion to find that miss tarrant was saying something about mary.
--from clouds of witness, by dorothy l. sayers
