Well, Partick would know -- assuming there is any truth is the allegation
that he piloted Lancasters during the Great Patriotic War, from which they
flew pigeons to signal their safe arrival. Or otherwise.
I have this on Good Authoritity from a bag-lady in Cromer whom my son
and I rescued from a pack of yobs.
It all makes sense if you squint sideways through your
varifocals ..
Ah, all so sad ...
This is the sort of thing you find yourself posting if, after hours of
trying to track down the origins of The Budg and Snudg Song, you find
yourself scribing:
"Swift's elegy ["Clever Tom Clinch"] closely reflects, if not in
forensic detail, Jack Sheppard's journey to the scaffold."
... and omits the attempts of his friends to save his body from the
anatomizing surgeons, his body passed from hand to hand over the heads of
the crowd, a detail cannibalised by Stephenson.
... a moment which is recapitulated in the final volume of Neil Stephenson's
Baroque Cycle, where, in his apologue for Sheppard, his protagonsist, under
the figure of Jack Shaftoe, *is rescued from the scaffold in just such a
way, to end up couping gless fur gless wi Loois the 14th.
Highly bloody unlikely, for all of me.
... as Deacon Brodie, hingit frae his air gallows wi a siller pipe
doon his scrag, discovered.
Apologies if this is off-topic.
A Harmless Lexicographical Drudge
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