Approaching the end of A Far Cry from Kensington and there's this, which amused me:
from A Far Cry from Kensington
Muriel SparkFred said many other good things about William, for Fred talked like the sea, in ebbs and flows each ending in a big wave which washed up the main idea. So that you didn't have to listen much at all, just wait for the big splash. And so, from his long, rippling eulogy I was able to report to William that his musical criticism was lucid and expert.