Posted by Ed Kiser on November 03, 2009 at 17:17:23 user Kisered.
In Reply to: literary allusions posted by Peter d'Owdon on November 02, 2009 at 18:07:48:
Now, I realize this is not exactly that same phrase, but the listing of assorted body parts makes it similar enough to remind me of this, from "HUCK FINN" chapter 37 by Mark Twain. But it is the kind of phrase that seemes to stick in the memory, as it is stated in a fashion that only Mark Twain could do.
Ed Kiser, Kentucky
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My heart fell down amongst my lungs and livers and things, and a hard
piece of corn-crust started down my throat after it and got met on the road with a cough, and was shot across the table, and took one of the children in the eye and curled him up like a fishing-worm, and let a cry out of him the size of a warwhoop, and Tom he turned kinder blue around the gills, and it all amounted to a considerable state of things for about a quarter of a minute or as much as that, and I would a sold out for half price if there was a bidder. But after that we was all right again -- it was the sudden surprise of it that knocked us so kind of cold.