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.
~ The Young Man’s Guide, by William Alcott, 1846
caprice: a tendency to change one’s mind without apparent or adequate motive (dictionary.com)
What passion!
(“ere” = “before”, if you didn’t know)
learn about the agony column
Victorians weren’t all stiff upper lip all the time.
