(np) the pleasure of reading weird locutions

[Michael Bailey]

In an older book, seeing “must” used as the simple past tense of “must.”



Even to the point of years later remembering the quiet excitement of adding
it to one’s word hoard,  long after forgetting the book it was in.

Some kind of scene like “there was no road, so they must travel a winding
path,” or “there were no eggs, so they must breakfast on porridge.”


Lots of weird locutions in M&D but not that, iirc.