"- ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?"
"Joyce has freed us from the superstition of syntax," agreed the curly man.
"Scenes which make emotional history," said Miss Heath-Warburton, "should ideally be expressed in a series of animal squeals."
"The D. H. Lawrence formula," said the other.
"Or even Dada," said the authoress.
"We need a new notation," said the curly-haired man putting both elbows on the table and knocking Wimsey's bread on to the floor. "Have you heard Robert Snoates recite his own verse to the tom-tom and the penny whistle?"
Mark Lipton