Yevgeny Zamyatin — We [427]

His face—round, white, as usual—a china plate; and his words, like something exquisitely tasty, served up on the plate: “Well, while it pleased you to be sick the other day, we had, I’d say, quite a bit of excitement here in the chiefs absence.” — Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, 427

Note

Characterization through deadpan material description; comparing a face to a china plate and words to served-up food makes the bureaucratic horror domestic and grotesque.