W. Somerset Maugham
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And all the torrent of brick bracks rained upon her skin is shed.
As globules of mercury might be supposed to run off the back of a dry drake.
One of the rarest amusements in life is to go about with an icicle suspended by a string.
Letting it down the necks of the unwary.
The sudden shrug, the quick frightened shudder.
The yelp of apprehension are sources of a pure joy.
Because diabolical delight.
But these women you may practice your chilling joke upon one of them, and she will calmly wonder where you got your ice, and will pin with deliberate fingers and ungrammatical resolution, denouncing congelation as tyrannical and obsolete.
We despair of ever dispelling these creatures by pungent pleasantries, of routing them by sharp censure.
They are, apparently, to go on practically unmolested to the end, and
Meantime we are cast down with a mighty proneness along the dust.
Our shapely anatomy is clothed in a jaunty suit of sack cloth liberally embellished with the frippery of ashes.
Our days are vocal with wailing, our nights melodious with snuffle.
Brethren, let us pray that the political scepter may not pass from us into the jewelled hands which were intended by nature for the clouding of babes and sucklings.
End of chapter forty two
Chapter forty three of the Fiend's Delight By Ambrose Bierce.
This Liebervox recording is in the public domain, recording by April six zero nine zero
Talk talk.
Angels and Angles
When abandoned to her own devices, the average female has a tendency to put on her things.
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