LUNGE across the dance floor like an electrocuted giraffe, the room changes from
GAZER into guffawer with literal spit-takes as glasses shatter around
GAUDY dresses and tuxes and shoes. Someone––anyone––please help. I, I mean, he needs it––
BADLY.
See more at Notes by Steven.
I like how it lets the reader join in the guffaw.
Inspired in no small part by this favorite from PG Wodehouse:
“I was going to ask you about that. What’s this idea of your suddenly taking dancing lessons?”
“Valerie insisted on it. She said I danced like a dromedary with the staggers.”
Pinto did not blame his sister. Indeed, in comparing her loved one to a dromedary with the staggers she had been, he thought, rather complimentary.
That’s so good. Have read a few of Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster.