I was listening to the audio book of Diana Gabaldon’s A Breath of Snow and Ashes on the way home from work when a line was casually tossed into the narrative, that made me burst out laughing as I drove. Such brilliant understatement!
“…somehow one never translates the strength required for daily farm life into a capacity for homicidal fury.”
Well no, we don’t. Not from sweet, docile, farm wives who spend most of their time around the stove, at least.
However, given that Mrs. Bug (who just exhibited the homicidal fury in question) is an 18th century Scottish Highlander, it does make it more likely! ((cough)).
Shawn L. Bird 