unearths some literary gems.
Fom Made Up to Kill, by Kelley Roos:
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[(Presumably) Fictitious Theatrical Productions dept.]
Four years ago she had snagged the ingenue lead in a play called Gibbon's Glade.
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The man who stood there seemed to me the tallest man I'd ever seen. His parents, I thought inanely, must have been Basil Rathbone and a skyscraper.
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[Personified Punctuation dept. The character being alluded to here is a nosy elevator operator.]
Fortunately the day operator was on and not Jinx, the human interrogation point.
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[One- (and Two-) Upping Clichés dept. (Also "Toast Is Funny" dept.)]
He came in looking as though he'd just eaten a flock of canaries. On toast.
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“Philip Ashley couldn’t have stolen a scene from a snowdrift.”
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Immediately Jeff gave me the high sign, so high it almost went completely over my head.
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Bonus: An extraneous intra-library slip of paper within this inter-library-loaned book bears the intriguing legend ***,S.
