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Updated: May 17, 2025
And, seventeenthly...." But King Philip banged the door. The hotel at Palma is like the Savoy, but the cooking is a great deal better. It is large and new; its decorations are in the modern style with twiddly lines. Its luxury is greater than that of its London competitor. It has an eager, willing porter and a delightful landlord. You do what you like in it and there are books to read.
They look at me. There is nothing about me to tell them that I know what is good for them better than they do themselves. In the fairy tales the wise man wore a conical hat and a long robe with twiddly things all round the edge. You knew he was a clever man. It avoided the necessity of explanation. Unfortunately, the fashion has gone out. We wise men have to wear just ordinary clothes.
"She wrinkles her nose at me as if I were a drain that had got out of order." "Merely the mask. I feel convinced she loves you still, and that a kindly word from you is all that is required." I could see that this had moved him. He plainly wavered. He did a sort of twiddly on the turf with his foot. And, when he spoke, one spotted the tremolo in the voice: "You really think that?" "Absolutely."
And then the little twiddly bit of accompaniment at the end: "ra-ra." The terrace in front of the house was a long narrow strip of turf, bounded along its outer edge by a graceful stone balustrade. Two little summer-houses of brick stood at either end.
So Moussa Isa was flogged and sent back to gardening, lessons and drawing. Yes the Somali was taught drawing. Not mere utilitarian drawing-to-scale and making plans and elevations, but "freehand"-drawing, the reproducing of meaningless twirly curves and twiddly twists from symmetrical conventional "copies". He copied copies and drew lines but never copied things, nor drew things.
She saw the young woman rise and come back toward her, putting the sheets of paper in order; and, as the door was closing, from the twiddly chair a noise that seemed to couple God with the condemnation of silly souls. When the young woman was once more at the typewriter she rose and said: "Have you given him my card yet?"
By the time the song was over he had disappeared through the opening. 'I'll show 'em the real stuff! came back a voice this time certainly his own far inside now. 'I simply love that man, exclaimed Monkey. 'Songs are usually such twiddly things, but that was real. She looked as though a somersault were imminent. 'If only Daddy knew him, he'd learn how to write unwumbled stories.
Through the open doorway Nedda could see a large and pleasant room, whose walls seemed covered with prints of men standing in attitudes such that she was almost sure they were statesmen; and, at a table in the centre, the back of Mr. Cuthcott in a twiddly chair, surrounded by sheets of paper reposing on the floor, shining like autumn leaves on a pool of water.
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