Tripod legs
Someone’s been playing Sons of the Forest
Is there an author that writes like this? I would like to read an entire book of this.
Depending on what specifically appeals to you, you’d probably like Literary nonsense aithors or Absurdist fiction authors.
The first one instantly made me think of Douglas Adams
I can see the similarity but IMO this isn’t that close to Douglas Adams.
Edit: did DA make a lot of puns and wordplay? Specifically taking well-known phrases but using their literal interpretation?
His dark green rubbery skin was thick enough for him to play the game of Vogon Civil Service politics, and play it well, and waterproof enough for him to survive indefinitely at sea depths of up to a thousand feet with no ill effects.
Mr. L. Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape
something like these, perhaps? There are probably better examples, I just skimmed through the first couple chapters of Hitchiker’s Guide to the galaxy
Well, in the first bit of the Hitchhiker’s guide, there’s:
“You’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.”
“What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?”
“You ask a glass of water.”
Which does fit, even if it’s not necessarily a “well-known phrase”
I’ll take it, and I stand corrected.
Terry Pratchett Discworld books? From memory the ones about witches at least had a good bit of it.
Check out Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice series.
For a long while you’re not actually sure what species the characters are, what their defining features are, if they even have gender, and/or how many limbs they have.
You just know what they’re like from their cutting remarks to one another.
It’s a series that focuses solely on plot and has a very loose definition of identity (and it’s awesome)
Everyone counting legs, nobody counting arms.
My lady had a limb for every day of the week!
Don’t ask what the Friday limb was…
