unobstreperous love

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  • Monsieur le Directeur is growing a flower for his daughter -- he has, in fact, an unobstreperous affinity for excrement; he lives in it; he is shaggy and spotted and blotched with it; he sleeps in it; he puts it in his pipe and says it is delicious ....

    The Enormous Room 1928

  • He was naturally sensitive, extremely the antithesis of coarse (which "refined" somehow does not imply) had not in the least suffered from a "good," as we say, education, and possessed an at once frank and unobstreperous personality.

    The Enormous Room 1928

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