Monday, July 20, 2015

Uriah Heep, asleep

There I saw him, lying on his back, with his legs extending to I don't know where, gurglings taking place in his throat, stoppages in his nose, and his mouth open like a post office.
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (1850), ch. 25  (describing Uriah Heep)

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