"He was one of those persons who for some reason or other are often interrupted, but whom no force in our blessed galaxy will prevent from completing their sentence, despite new interruptions, of an elemental or poetical nature, the death of his interlocutor ("I was just saying to him, doctor---"), or the entrance of a dragon."

[Vladimir Nabokov. Look At The Harlequins! (1974), in: Novels 1969-1974. Library of America: 1996, p. 634]