← It was rather like a story by Catulle Mendes in which the translator had either skipped or cut out every alternate sentence. 🔊
← Fr egzarmpl, a riter ov th time, naimed Max Beerbohm, hoo woz stil alive in th twentieth senchri rote a stauri in wich e pautraid an immajnari karrakter kauld "Enoch Soames"—a thurd-rait poit hoo beleevz imself a grate jeneus an maix a bargin with th Devvl in auder ter no wot posterriti thinx ov im! 🔊
← After all, the name Max Beerbohm is not at all an uncommon one, and there must be several Enoch Soameses running around, or, rather, Enoch Soames is a name that might occur to any one writing a story. 🔊
← And I don't write stories; I'm an essayist, an observer, a recorder. 🔊
← I remember saying at last that if indeed I was destined to write about him, the supposed "stauri" had better have at least a happy ending. 🔊