The 13 Clocks and The Wonderful O Quotes

“Hyde was suddenly up to his ankles in phantasmagoria. 'Crabs, crayfish, prawns, shrimps,' he howled, 'alias the decapods. Centipedes and spiders, alias the arthropods. Snails and slugs, alias molluscs and gastropods.' He thought he saw crickets, too, alias orthoptera, and a score of zooming bats, alias chiroptera. He turned and ran, pursued by rodents small and big, the rat, the rabbit and the guinea-pig.”
― James Thurber, The 13 Clocks and The Wonderful O