I recalled my father-in-law’s aphorism “To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom…” & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye (David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas)
I recalled my father-in-law’s aphorism “To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom…” & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye (David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas)