Saturday, February 4, 2012

Shane-lock Holmes

"So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found the summer sun shining into the apartment." -- `The Man with the Twisted Lip'

It's actually alarming the number of times Sir Arthur Conan Doyle uses the word "ejaculated" when modern authors would use the word "said"...

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