Two figures in particular seemed ill-matched. One, a young man, was tall, thin and angular; even muffled inside a heavy dark coat he walked a little like an affronted heron.
The other was small, roundish, and moved with an ungainly restlessness, like a number of elderly squirrels trying to escape from a sack. His own age was on the older side of completely indeterminate. If you picked a number at random, he was probably a little older than that, but--well, it was impossible to tell.
-Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, 12-13.
1 comment:
This description - especially the part about the elderly squirrels - is brilliant. I LOVE similes.
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