Victorians also gloried in floriography, or written alphabets of flowers that assigned each flower a certain quality, such as friendship, hope, or gratitude.

his memory stinks like the snuff of a candle when it is put out […]

“Ma, it’s not dads fault. Why are you hollering at him?” “I’ve watched your father go out and kill people for twenty years. He never talks about it, but it’s always there. When the phone rings, your father lights up like a / Christmas’s tree. He likes killing people.”

Tautomerism is chemical isomerism characterized by relatively easy interconversion of isomeric forms in equilibrium.