Octavian Nothing (third post)

“ ‘Oh, Milord….Octavian,’ said my mother, ‘stop breaking my crayons.’
‘I’m not breaking,’ said I. ‘I’m drawing.’
‘‘Drawing’ is not snapping crayons and hurling them across the room.’
I said, ‘it’s the volcano Vesuvius in the very height of its eruption. That’s how you draw magma.’
‘Now that is a demme fine volcano,’ said lord Cheldthorpe, squatting down beside me.
I said, ‘it rained ash upon the living and the dead. And gasses came out that were killing.’
‘Indeed,’ said my mother, swatting my hand. ‘Killing my red.’” (83).

This is how most of the humor in the book goes, I don’t really want to say dry humor, but it seems that is what it is. I like the sense of humor the author has, none of it is really laugh out loud, most of it just makes you want to chuckle. I would say sophisticated humor that would be a good way of describing it. It also appears that another character has been introduced, Lord Cheldthorpe of the new creation. Lord Cheldthorpe was introduced because the head master and donator to the College of Lucidity has died. I see Lord Chel. As not fitting with the rest of the characters, science does not interest him (the main center of the book) and I see that he will turn the book around, and cause great trouble. He is also interested in the only woman in the book, which is the envy of all the men in the college so that might cause conflict to – he wants her all to himself. But he shows Octavian great affection, maybe they will run away together. I chose this quote because it was very funny and compared to the rest of the book and the books writing style it just stuck out.