Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
[The house] was about thirty years old, squattish, squarish, made of brick, and had four windows set in the front of a size and proportion which more or less exactly failed to please the eye.
Reminds me of this one
Still my favourite book. I love his humor so much, and it’s just stuffed with it line by line from one end to the other
[The house] was about thirty years old, squattish, squarish, made of brick, and had four windows set in the front of a size and proportion which more or less exactly failed to please the eye.
Probably didn’t help me in my fondness for run-on sentences and interjections, that book, did it