OUR offices have been flooded with readers' contributions since the appearance of PTI'S May 31 Modern Living story on Tom Swiftiesthe little book of adverbial puns by Paul.
The dialogue, as usual, is tone-deaf, and the adverbial crunches devastating (Bernard "winced inwardly"; "'Blah!' the drunk angrily ejaculated").
Its object: to create an adverbial link between what is said and how it is said.