onomatopies

Updated: July 28, 2025

He thought to himself, Bos in lingûa. The troubled man has an ox on his tongue. In his complex emotions, humiliation was the first which dawned on him. Ursus, driven out of his last resource, pondered. "I lavish my onomatopies in vain." Then, like every dreamer, he reviled himself. "What a frightful failure! I wore myself out in a pure loss of imitative harmony. But what is to be done next?"

Victor Hugo - The Man Who Laughs