written by a pig.

“. . . and I am not sure that it was not about this time that she learned to say, when she wanted to indicate that she thought a book badly-written: ‘It’s interesting, but really, it might have been written by a pig.’ ”

(Proust, The Captive, trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin, p.10)

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