“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an undigested potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you...”. Scrooge says this to Jacob Marley’s ghost..................
“Scrooge says ...”
I thought about this too.
Great find in classic literature.
One of the technothrillers in the early 1990s (maybe by Dale Brown??) had the hero going into a hangar to see a captured experimental enemy aircraft:
“It looked like something Tom Clancy would have seen in a nightmare after eating a bad burrito.”