does anyone know who big martin is, and what literay place is he from. is he some kind of children's character from somewhere? or something from TS Eliott?
him and those cats just seem to appear in a way as if they're quoted

He's from a traditional ghost story (well, campfire type of legend anyway - not technically a ghost, but you know what I mean). Basically, a guy agrees to spend the night in a supposedly haunted house (don't they always), and the story is pretty much verbatim the dialogue that Thurs overhears in the pub: more and more cats keep showing up, each one bigger than the last, until finally the poor fellow looks at the latest enormous feline and says, "Well, if you're not Big Martin, I don't want to wait and see what is!" and takes off running. The End.

I know the story from way back (don't actually remember where I first heard it), so I was highly amused to find it quoted word for word like that!

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Wow, really? I had no idea about that. I'd never heard of Big Martin before WOLP.

...kind of like that story about the hook-handed slasher at Lover's Lane, then, huh?

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