I have recently been reading Stephen Fry's 'paperweight' covering much of his work from radio, periodicals and newspaper. I can recommend it to anyone who loves to see the english language opened up in all of it's humorous and intellectual glory. Here is a man who can stretch a point thus;
"capable of describing a scintilla of an iota of a shadow of a suspicion of an atom of a fraction of a ghost of a tithe of a particle of my horror, shame and pitiable distress"
I won't spoil it for any narrative explorer who hopes to later sail the Amazon of words that flow around this sentence by giving away the context. I merely highlight it as an example for you entertainment, delight and possible edification.
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