tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post5241762580859723943..comments2024-03-29T22:18:45.103+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond spends its Monday with the major Mitchell's fantastic Order of Lenin plumage ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-13043289063251161872016-10-31T14:00:45.175+11:002016-10-31T14:00:45.175+11:00Given Major Mitchell seems to have all of the answ...Given Major Mitchell seems to have all of the answers and insight of the media landscape, it confuses me why he could never convert that immense wisdom into a profitable paper?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-11790829731267242862016-10-31T10:31:22.205+11:002016-10-31T10:31:22.205+11:00Dorothy. I am struck by the amazing parallels of ...Dorothy. I am struck by the amazing parallels of The Major Mitchell cocky with Mr Grimwig from Oliver Twist.<br /><br />_________________<br /><br />"I'll be content to eat my own head, sir!"<br /><br />This was the handsome offer with which Mr. Grimwig backed and confirmed nearly every assertion he made; and it was the more singular in his case, because, even admitting for the sake of argument, the possibility of scientific improvements being ever brought to that pass which will enable a gentleman to eat his own head in the event of his being so disposed, Mr. Grimwig's head was such a particularly large one, that the most sanguine man alive could hardly entertain a hope of being able to get through it at a sitting- to put entirely out of the question, a very thick coating of powder. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com