'...It is a little shy wine like a gazelle.''Like a leprechaun.'
'Dappled, in a tapestry meadow.'
'Like a flute by still water.'
'A prophet in a cave.'
'...And this is a necklace of pearls on a white neck.'
'Like a swan.'
'Like the last unicorn.'
'Ought we to be drunk every night?' Sebastian asked one morning.
'Yes, I think so.'
'I think so too.'
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Drinking every night should be discouraged. Think of how the mornings and afternoons feel being left out of all the fun. By a slight realignment of the letters in the word "sober" we get "bores" and nothing bores like being sober.
I also love the passage where Mottram takes Ryder out for dinner in Paris and insists on the appalling brandy.
Bogus: not the brandy was appaling but the parvenu style of drinking it in an over-blown balloon-glass even though it was a mere digestif in a humble yet well-picked restaurant.
Werner,
I think you should go back and read that passage again.
'Wernher'.
Entschuldigung, Wernher. How's the Chinese coming along?
'Japanese'!!
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