What fine English worlds can be used to describe inflation?

ATG recently used "brevity" and "albeit", and not long ago there was a thread with "days of yore" and "thinner climes". Do you remember stories where such fine, tasty English language have been used to describe inflation?

_{"I really don't wish to pop!" she cried. "Or, well, to have myself popped. I am not made for perilous expansion. I wish I had never heard of inflation! Why did it come to me? Why was I chosen?"}

_{"Such questions cannot be answered. You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, at any rate. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have."}