brick-cheese

Updated: May 23, 2025

In his bosom the milk of human kindness had clabbered and turned to a brick-cheese. He stood there and laughed. There are times to laugh, but this was not one of the times. Anyway I always did despise those people who are built like sounding boards and have fine acoustic qualities inside their heads and not much of anything else; but never did I despise them more than at that moment.

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - Cobb's Bill-of-Fare