Gerald Durrell is great for therapeutic silly reading, isn't he?
Oh, the relevant sentence from the nearest book:
I saved the state ten million rubles in lowered production costs!
Be bloody grateful that's all it is. It's from the first volume of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago, which is about the Soviet concentration camp system, and it's from a fifty-page section on torture methods. Wonderful set of books, but a harrowing read. Funnily enough, I'm a bit stuck on that one at the moment. On a cheerier note, here's one from Saki's short stories:
The king gave orders for Vespalus to be taken down to await further orders, and stalked silently back to his midday meal, at which he was careful to eat heartily and drink copiously as though nothing unusual had happened.
The first few sentences on that page were very long and convoluted, and it was some strange business about bees. Can't for the life of me remember that story.
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Date: 2005-01-07 02:50 am (UTC)Oh, the relevant sentence from the nearest book:
I saved the state ten million rubles in lowered production costs!
Be bloody grateful that's all it is. It's from the first volume of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago, which is about the Soviet concentration camp system, and it's from a fifty-page section on torture methods. Wonderful set of books, but a harrowing read. Funnily enough, I'm a bit stuck on that one at the moment. On a cheerier note, here's one from Saki's short stories:
The king gave orders for Vespalus to be taken down to await further orders, and stalked silently back to his midday meal, at which he was careful to eat heartily and drink copiously as though nothing unusual had happened.
The first few sentences on that page were very long and convoluted, and it was some strange business about bees. Can't for the life of me remember that story.