Quotes About Hiccuping

And now came the second strange thing...He suddenly stopped hiccuping, his heart thumped and dropped somewhere for a second, then returned, but with a blunt needle stuck in it... the apparition had dissolved, the checkered character had vanished, and with him, the needle had slipped out of his heart. (4)

But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping thing when conjuring up fire - or the propensity for fillings to fall out of bystanders' teeth when attempting to tease a rainstorm out of a cloud.