“Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.”
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.”
Parnassus, Preface (1874)
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