Opis: Fishing Holidays (Classic Reprint) - Gwynn Stephen Lucius

Excerpt from Fishing Holidays

Conceive the attempt to induce appetite in an elderly viveur with a display of arsenical-green sugar-plums or crimson bull's-eyes. The task would be difficult, even for an experienced artist. But to this must be added another supposition. The epicure's digestive organs must be in such a state as absolutely to preclude the idea of digesting whatever he might choose to swallow, however attractive the dish. And not only that. The epicure must also be conceived of as aware, whether from the witness of his own eyes or the inherited experience of his race, that the attempt to swallow green lollipops or crimson sweets served up in a certain very peculiar fashion is accompanied with a sharp pang in the jaw and, possibly, with a brief and violent struggle ending in the epicure's total disappearance from the world he lived in. In short, as the race's experience would probably put it, any one who touches those sweets is liable to be captured and carried off by devils with forks.

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Szczegóły: Fishing Holidays (Classic Reprint) - Gwynn Stephen Lucius

Nazwa: Fishing Holidays (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Gwynn Stephen Lucius
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330575826
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 312
Format: 15.2x22.9cm

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