Joy in the Morning (1947)
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy text adventure game (1985), published by Infocom.
Source: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 6, “Embarras de Richesses”
“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”
“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep – it can't be done abruptly.”
Colm Tóibín, novelist – portrait of the artist http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/feb/19/colm-toibin-novelist-portrait-artist, The Guardian (19 February 2013)
“He resembled a minor prophet who had been hit behind the ear with a stuffed eel-skin.”
Ukridge (1924)
Query 3
Opticks (1704)
Context: Are not the Rays of Light in passing by the edges and sides of Bodies, bent several times backwards and forwards, with a motion like that of an Eel? And do not the three Fringes of colour'd Light... arise from three such bendings?
“Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.”
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, p. 92.
“He who builds on the people, builds on the mud.”
Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 9; translated by W. K. Marriott
