Quoting for giggles

[briarwood]

I mentioned Anne Bishop's Dark Jewels trilogy in my last post. That was before I reached the passage quoted under the cut. Yesterday I was going on about how dark these novels are, and that's true. But there's a lovely, quirky humour in them, too, and this made me laugh out loud when I read it:

"Do you understand this?" she demanded, thrusting a Craft book into his hands and pointing to a paragraph.

His insides churning, he called in his half-moon glasses, positioned them carefully on his nose, and obediently read the paragraph. "It seems simple enough," he said after a moment.

Jaenelle plopped on air, spraddle-legged. "I knew it," she muttered, crossing her arms. "I knew it was written in male."

Saetan vanished his glasses. "I beg your pardon?"

"It's gibberish. Geoffrey understands it but can't explain it so that it makes sense, and you understand it. Therefore, it's written in male - only comprehensible to a mind attached to a cock and balls."