I agreed the situation was sticky. Indeed, offhand it was difficult to see how it could have been more glutinous.

It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought …

As plainly as if it had been the top line on the oculist's chart I could see what the future held for Bertram.

For some moments after silence had come like a poultice to heal the blows of sound, all that occupied his mind was the thought of what pests the gentler sex we…

Rufus Wainwright: Did you see that there's a chiropractor here?

They look quite promising in the shop, and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriora…

Dark as pitch.