Loved it. Very, very clever.

I did have to explain who the Great Panjandrum was to my brother though. He was sitting there reading and he goes 'I wish I knew who this panjandrum bloke was. Some sort of book-God, right?' And I said 'Ah! How clever of him!'.

Eventually I stopped the 'maddeningly superior'ness and told him. I also explained about the daffodils in summer with the holesmith.



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

Sorry, is there something I have missed? Something that isn't in the book? Is the Great Panjandrum someone else than in the book?

/Mattias
(Not the horse)

Jasper refers to himself jokingly as the Great Panjandrum. Ergo, it is funny that the Great Panjandrum is mentioned in the book :)

The way you say that AAC makes me sound terribely sad for finding it funny...



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

But the Great Panjandrum is from somewhere else - a nonsense poem by Samuel Foote:

The Great Panjandrum
by Samuel Foote

So she went into the garden
to cut a cabbage-leaf
to make an apple-pie;
and at the same time
a great she-bear, coming down the street,
pops its head into the shop.
What! no soap?
So he died,
and she very imprudently married the Barber:
and there were present
the Picinnies,
and the Joblillies,
and the Garyulies,
and the great Panjandrum himself,
with the little round button at top;
and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as-catch-can,
till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.

Brewers says "a pretentious of pompous official, a local potentate. The word occurs in the farrago of nonsense composed in 1755 by Samuel Foote to test old Charles Macklin, the Irish actor, who said that he had brought his memory to such perfection that he could remember anything after reading it over once."



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Do something pretty while you can...

brilliant, Dante - I could only remember a few lines of that.



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