servaise's

Updated: May 15, 2025

So hour after hour passed, through which, between vain attempts to sleep, I managed to wade through many pages of Rosny's Le Termite a not very cheerful proceeding, I must say, concerned as it is with the microscopic and over-elaborate recital of Noel Servaise's tortured nerves, bodily pains, and intellectual phantasma.

Jack London - The Mutiny of the Elsinore