"it had gone slack in his grasp, but as it grew taut again he eased it back & his nostrils quivered"

So my main achievement this evening has been to make a pasta sauce so unutterably vile I was forced to throw it away :(

My grocery delivery arrived in the middle of cooking it, and I think I must have burnt the garlic, I don't know why else it would have turned out so disgusting.

I have been forced to open a tin of tuna instead, and then fight two cats for possession.