I wish I could be more like a duck. Duck feathers have a multi-layered structure which is very hydrophobic – in other words, water rolls off a duck’s back like yesterday’s worries.
Something extraordinary must have taken place; he looks to me as if he were in imminent danger of serious apoplexy. The lower part of his face is composed enough, but the upper part is drawn and distorted. Then there is that peculiar look about the eyes that indicates an effusion of serum in the brain.
Quotation from Honoré de Balzac, Old Goriot
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