Familiarity Breeds Slothrop

[Keith McMullen]

from Pale Fire:

"Hardly had he refastened his trousers and checked the bulge of his hip
pocket than a renewal of stabs and queaks caused him to strip his thighs
again which he did with such awkward precipitation that his small Browning
was all but sent flying into the depths of the toilet."

from Ada:

"A small map of the European part of the British Commonwealth -- [...] -- as
well as most of the U.S.A., from Estoty and Canady to Argentina, might be
quite thickly prickled with enameled red-cross-flag pins, marking, in her
War of the Worlds, Aqua's bivouacs."