I am reading Joseph Conrad's Victory, and he is describing a man who is known to be a gossip. He describes the individual as a large man of the Teutonic persuasion "with an ungovernable tongue that must have operated on a pivot."
The part in quotes cracked me up.
Have the rest of you come across any short bits of prose lately that made you chuckle or otherwise caught your attention?
The part in quotes cracked me up.
Have the rest of you come across any short bits of prose lately that made you chuckle or otherwise caught your attention?