unearths some literary gems.
From Those Barren Leaves, by Aldous Huxley:
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"Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery."
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Young Lord Hovenden laughed in a very ventriloquial, man-of-the-worldly fashion.
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The third button of his waistcoat was undone and his right hand, like a half-posted letter, was inserted in the orifice.
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my most Sphingine smile
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[These two snippets go with the Etruscan/Fufluns attachments.]
"My enthusiasm for Fufluns carried me away."
"Flucuthukh to me only with thine eyes."
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[Additional offstage character names]
Lady Giblet
Lady Belfry
[Note re. the "invented" attachment: This novel is from 1925, so the Lucia echo is probably intentional. Oddly, the line is given to Miss Thriplow, even though it's Mrs. Aldwinkle who's the Lucialike character in the present book.]
