Speaking of “A Christmas Carol”… probably one of my all-time favorite lines (made all the more entertaining because our daughter is deathly allergic to the things…) has to be, “Marley’s face. It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.”
I mean Mr. Dickens… what exactly does a “bad lobster” do in a dark cellar?
Speaking of “A Christmas Carol”… probably one of my all-time favorite lines (made all the more entertaining because our daughter is deathly allergic to the things…) has to be, “Marley’s face. It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.”
I mean Mr. Dickens… what exactly does a “bad lobster” do in a dark cellar?