whir-r-ring

Updated: October 14, 2025

To her, too, he will have forfeited any fervour he may have had, any learning, any gaiety. How can he, the jaded interpreter, hold any opinion, feel any enthusiasm? without leisure, keep his mind in cultivation? be sprightly to order, at unearthly hours in a whir-r-ring office? To order! Yes, sprightliness is compulsory there; so are weightiness, and fervour, and erudition.

Sir Max Beerbohm - Yet Again