The Deeper Meaning of Liff |
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 | What a fantastic book - what a brilliant concept. Hundreds of words simply wasting their time hanging around on signposts. Hundreds of objects, situations, states of mind etc. for which there are no words in common use.
Two quick examples...
Have you ever walked along a street, only to encounter someone coming in the opposite direction, at which point you engage in a little dance that involves both of you skipping from side to side, interspersed with apologies? You have? Droitwich!
Those bits you find in bacon, that you only actually discover when you bite on them and break your teeth...? Beccles!
As for seeing someone you recognise at the opposite end of a long corridor, and judging when is just precisely the right time to let them know you've seen them... well I'll leave that for you to find out yourself.
This is a great, great book. One you can come back to time and time again, and always find yourself sniggering, or laughing out loud, or sometimes just nodding sagely (with a ... read more.
Written by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd.
Published 23 October 1992.
Published by Pan Books.
rrp £6.99.
176 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 0330322206
ISBN-13: 9780330322201 | |
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