The Dutch Ambassador rolled his eyes and tossed the waffle back over his shoulder--before it struck the ground, a stout, disconcertingly monkey-like dog sprang into the air and snatched it, and began to masticate it--literally--for the sound it made was like a homunculus squatting on the floor muttering, "masticate masticate masticate."
for a book that, for the most part, deals with semi-serious matters, like cromwell and the royal society (men like hooke, wren, and newton), it manages to have some very entertaining bits.
That's so bizarre, I'm reading that same book.
ReplyDeletei was just thinking that to myself as well, "red is reading the same book! i was there when he bought it."
ReplyDeleteand also, you know that sort of situation had to have happened to the author, you don't just come up with weird descriptive moments like that.