Baffling at times with no sense of progress.

The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dog bites man

Chesil Beach
It'll be alright on the night.

Young Neanderthal living in dump tries living in middle-class residential house but concludes that dump is preferable.

There is in it what is in it; 'tis a mirror held up to the reader, whereby if a donkey look in, surely a sage will not look out; the ends of all things are revealed within its pages to he who has the key; it keepeth away the pox, the flux, and the weeping sore.