Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy text adventure game (1985), published by Infocom.
“He vanished abruptly, like an eel going into mud.”
— P.G. Wodehouse, book Joy in the Morning
Joy in the Morning (1947)
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F. Anstey (1856–1934) English novelist and journalist
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“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep – it can't be done abruptly.”
Colm Tóibín (1955) Irish novelist and writer
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“He resembled a minor prophet who had been hit behind the ear with a stuffed eel-skin.”
P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author
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Isaac Newton book Opticks, or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light
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?
Alain de Botton book The Consolations of Philosophy
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, p. 92.
“He who builds on the people, builds on the mud.”
Niccolo Machiavelli book The Prince
Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 9; translated by W. K. Marriott