A delightful way to convey disorderly thoughts, and I like that ‘languishing and ogling’.

‘… she could scarcely keep her ideas in order.  They were languishing and ogling like a housemaid’s fancies.’

Source: Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, ed. with an introduction by Rachel Bowlby (Oxford: World’s Classics, 1992), p. 232

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