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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
There's "A Little Princess", which is not a bad book at all, but it does have this bit of unintentional humor, caused by the way language has changed in the last century
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Especially when an author compounds the issue with the use of
several words which have changed somewhat in the last century:
So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of shag which I had seen upon the previous night.