Carson Chittom quoted Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
This is the first in the Lord Peter Wimsey series of stories that includes Harriet …
"But, however entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance? It seems probable—"
"And if you can quote Kai Lung, we should certainly get on together."
— Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5) (Page 49)
I often wish for older books to have explanatory and contextual footnotes. (Often when money is mentioned: is a given sum a fortune or embarrassingly little, at the time of writing?) In this case, I am at least aware of Kai Lung, having learnt of Ernest Bramah just last year, but it's difficult to know sometimes what a reference means even realizing it's been made. Undoubtedly my descendants in 2077 will boggle equally at characters from my lifetime spouting "I have a bad feeling about this" or calling one another muggles.