irrulevances

Updated: May 5, 2025

I don't know what he meant by that, and he didn't say; it was just one of his irrulevances, I reckon he was full of them, sometimes, when he was in a close place and couldn't see no other way out but I didn't mind. We'd spotted the soft place in that tale sharp enough, he couldn't git away from that little fact. It graveled him like the nation, too, I reckon, much as he tried not to let on.

Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer Abroad