" --Here, my good man. Could you tell me whereabouts Horatio Street...good heavens.

Thus called upon, he took courage; the sursum corda of an extravagant belch straightened him upright, and he answered, --Whfffck? Whether this was an approach to discussion he had devised himself, or a subtle adaptation of the Socratic method of questioning perfected in the local athenaeums which he attended until closing time, was not to be known; for the answer was,

--Stand aside. "

― William Gaddis , The Recognitions