Saturday, January 19, 2013

Fretful porpentine

In the Jeeves and Wooster books, they spend a good bit of time referring to and discussing the expression, "Like quills upon the fretful porpentine." In case anyone wonders about that expression, a porpentine is a porcupine, as one might suspect; and the quote is from Act 1 Scene 5 of Hamlet.

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