Exercises in Style

by Raymond Queneau

I saw and noticed a young man and an old adolescent

egativities

omeoptotes

lurb

instance, I remember my father was always telling me about

olyptotes I got into a bus full of taxpayers who were giving some money to a taxpayer who had on his taxpayer’s stomach a little box which allowed the other taxpayers to continue their taxpayers’ journeys.

pocope

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This one is just pure awesome

I tell you, personally I think there are some odd things in this life, it’s only mountains that never meet.

xclamations

whose neck was longer than that of the swift-footed giraffe,

Then the two of us, my bus and I, continued on our way.

actile

Buses are soft to the touch especially if you take them between the thighs and caress them with both hands, from the head towards the tail, from the engine towards the platform.

aragoge

arts of speech

otanical

I noticed among all these noodles a poor fish with a neck as long as a stick of celery and

utile

in conformity with the established laws of probability.

efinitional

wearing on the upper extremity of his body a piece of headgear of variable shape

who was going from one place to another a misdemeanour consisting of displacing his feet one after the other onto his own, set off to place himself on a piece of furniture placed in such a way that it could be sat upon, said piece of furniture recently having become unoccupied.

listen to the rest. Well, actually, listen is just a figure of speech, or a figure of writing, seeing as it is a matter of reading.

Seeing a vacant seat, he threw himself onto it like misery onto the world.

ontingencies