Some of my favourite authors are comedic writers. Here is a quote from Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything where he describes the method in which a chemist tested if a substance can catch fire.
“In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at once that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one’s face.”
And of course, if you have not read Tina’ Fey’s Bossypants, you need to get onto that. In this passage, she is writing about accepting her body, especially her very large eyebrows.
“Instead of trying to fit an impossible ideal, I took a personal inventory of all my healthy body parts for which I am grateful: Straight Greek eyebrows. They start at the hairline at my temple and, left unchecked, will grow straight across my face and onto yours.”
