“I am the very model of a modern major general…”
“Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises, sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not.”
“People will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.”
“Nothing is certain in London but expense.”
“We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a glow-worm.”
“Gradually he realized that the Tube map was a handy fiction that made life easier but bore no resemblance to the reality of the shape of the city above.”
“In Britain are hot springs adorned with sumptuous splendour for the use of mortals”
Midwest Magellan 