Sublime

And Jeff said, "Nonsense, Terry—you know men like dogs better than women do—as a whole."

as Saki once put it, ‘a little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation’,

The Christmas Egg consolidated Kelly’s developing reputation as a quirky, intelligent crime novelist, but she was never interested in following fashion or working to a template. Later, in an excess of modesty that seems typical of her, she would describe the three Nightingale books as “sins of my youth”.

She had been picturing a village of mice living their lives under the bath, playing violins, going to school, having

“I believe it would be called a muster of peacocks,” Poppy said. “Not a flock.” “Call them a knot of toads instead,” Beatrix said. “A colony of penguins,” Amelia joined in. “A rumpus of baboons,” Poppy said, laughing.

It was of final importance to Dickens that poor men could amuse themselves and could amuse him. He troubled little about the mere education of that life; he declared two essential things about it—that it was laughable, and that it was livable.