[violet-ianthe]

“A man doesn’t like to see a man go all wobbly about his sister - at least, not with such a prolonged wobble. It’s unsightly. It’s irritating. Why not slap the manly thorax and say, ‘Peter, my dear old mangel-wurzel, I have decided to dig myself into the old family trench and be a brother to you’?”

— Lord Peter Wimsey

[ibmiller]

This passage tends to reduce me to a giggling puddle on the floor.