My little cup brims with tiddles. - Vladimir Nabokov

...my family despised Faberge objects as emblems of grotesque garishness.

She considered me as if grasping all at once the incredible — and somehow tedious, confusing and unnecessary — fact that the distant, elegant, slender, forty-year-old valetudinarian in velvet coat sitting beside her had known and adored every pore and follicle of her pubescent body. In her washed-out gray eyes, strangely spectacled, our poor romance was for a moment reflected, pondered upon, and dismissed like a dull party, like a rainy picnic to which only the dullest bores had come, like a humdrum exercise, like a bit of dry mud caking her childhood.

This brand of paper (used by macaroon makers) was not only digestible but delicious.