When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.
Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.
Life is a joke that's just begun.
He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.
To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.