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'Oh,' says the metaphysician, 'this is association: just so a strain of music reminds you of a fine passage in a book you have read, or a beautiful tone in a picture you have seen; just so the Ranz des Vaches bears the exile to the timber house, with shady leaves, corbelled and strut-supported, whose very weakness appeals to the avalanche that shakes an icicly beard in monition from the impeding crags.'

The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

So, since Rebecca walked in on Kitty being icicly, is she throwing the trivia game here by going against her, or just genuinely wrong?

unknown title 2008

This morning, as with all mornings, I took She Who Must Bark At The Most Inconvenient Times on an early morning walk, which, given the several feet of snow on the ground (read: a few inches), was less an “early morning walk” than a “mighty difficult time staying afoot for the bipedal member of the walking party, as the bipedal-squared one trounced happily and darted into snowbanks and tried her best to cause the amputation of the fingers on my icicly leash-bearing hand.”

The Beggarwoman of Locarno | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast 2005