A digital form of the sadly lost fashion for copying out memorable passages from texts. I kept losing my actual book.
Monday, 20 May 2013
Gustave Flaubert ... would have described her as being mad as a wet hen.
She [Constance] was thinking of Alaric, Duke of Dunstable, and a stylist like Gustave Flaubert, with his flair for the mot juste, would have described her as being mad as a wet hen.
P.G. Wodehouse, A Pelican at Blandings (1969), 116
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