Rotational alabaster not being what once it was, Propter and Ob had hinted that Phlebas should take stock of the state of his present incarnation and how it (the inca nation) figured in his soul’s path through the spacetimecontinuumski. It was he wot collated the marmoset and swam through jam, they pointed out, and as such the situation necessitated mbepi-fenestra, the Fijian window trick.


Why, whoever can that be at the window?

“’Hooty?’ Hmtoto farobi, Funicular and the Rancids (live at Hammersmith) (as opposed to live wot am pronounced liv innit) (1922).” Having thus explained away his indiscretion, Ob scratched the furniture for all he was worth, “like unto an crab possessed” (Apfelstrudel Katterpilla’s epochal Die Wahnsinnige Krabbe (Offenbach Press, 1739).


Scratchy Ob

Enid Yaxley was indicating the functional hillock, much to the mirth of the village folk, who had gathered in the pond in order to renege on their promise to eat beetles for breakfast. Propter interacted with them on an ad hoc basis, preferring, as did his best chum Ob, to take the accusative. “Peremptory” Agamemnon, the Tortoise-Friend, introduced him to sundry hodge, whence nibble and stoat (mstoto fanubi-niddo). Heh heh heh! Mbangi mbutu, as we say in my country.