" In my mind ran the immortal line of James Thurber, that phrase at once so intensely comic and so pregnant with suggestions of unnameable terror: "Now we go up to the garrick and become warbs." We were going up to the garrick all right, and warbs suddenly seemed the least terrifying of the things we might become. "

― Anthony Boucher , The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Fergus O'Breen Mysteries #2)