The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.
Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?
A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.
Image from a 15th c. ms (Universitätsbibliothek Salzburg M III 36) depicting Theologia driven on a cart pulled by the seven liberal arts (i.e. the other university disciplines) and driven at the rear by Peter Lombard, author of the Liber Sententiarum, the basic textbook of the late mediaeval theological curriculum.
Talk about mnemonic devices!
