Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Current Favourite Sentences

He takes readily to poetry, sir. Anything with a beat and no exact meaning excites him.

2 comments:

nagihun said...

is this Wodehouse?

James Womack said...

No, it's from Nigel Dennis's novel Cards of Identity (1954), which I've been trying on and off to read for several years and which I finally defeated last week. I don't know why it took me so long: it's very good.