tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post8485525677786305200..comments2024-03-17T05:07:13.710-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: A Wuthering Expectations Investigative Report - Were mummified cats actually shipped to England for use as fertilizer? Yes, probably. I didn't say it was a good investigation.Amateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-47490119233159233732013-03-18T08:51:06.476-05:002013-03-18T08:51:06.476-05:00I don't remember the Crowley story. If it is ...I don't remember the Crowley story. If it is in <i>Novelties & Souvenirs</i> I read it, but that ain't no guarantee uh nothin. What happens in it?Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-45343018853594795202013-03-09T10:15:38.937-06:002013-03-09T10:15:38.937-06:00How could you do an entire Special Investigative R...How could you do an entire Special Investigative Report without mentioning John Crowley's short story on the topic?!? Not that he's a reliable source, but come on. (I came back three and a half years in time to this thread because I just read the story and remembered seeing "mummified cats" in your list of tag lines somewhere.)Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00251983804060081813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-46705179399281704002009-11-29T18:47:02.009-06:002009-11-29T18:47:02.009-06:00Neil, no apologies. This was great fun.
What Arn...Neil, no apologies. This was great fun.<br /><br />What Arnold Bennett book are you thinking of? I've never read him, and should. And what Henry Mayhew (or do you mean someone else)? I've wondered about <i>London Labour and the London Poor</i>.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-88051432923642745752009-11-23T16:29:31.751-06:002009-11-23T16:29:31.751-06:00Oh! Ah! Um! Was it all me? Sorry! But it's ver...Oh! Ah! Um! Was it all me? Sorry! But it's very interesting to see how an accepted piece of historical evidence is based on such flimsy references, true or not.<br />A young friend of mine has just started a university degree and has been annoyed and dismayed to be asked to write an essay on the subject of "Dust". But I think this a brilliant topic, certainly for a lecturer trying to find out which of their students knows how to think. And imagines they might have read Dickens or Mayhew or even Arnold Bennett...Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18020242863144175965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-47650065785237106302009-11-17T10:25:19.718-06:002009-11-17T10:25:19.718-06:00litlove, would this be a good place to insert vari...litlove, would this be a good place to insert various Dickens passages about making cats into meat pies? It's all in the seasoning. No, I'll save that for some other time.<br /><br />Deb - I'm sure you heard that. It's a story that's repeated a lot. The sourcing is much worse that for the mummifed cat story. See this <a href="http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=manu;cc=manu;idno=manu0002-5;node=manu0002-5:1;size=S;frm=frameset;seq=153" rel="nofollow">short piece</a> from the 1870 issue of <em>The Manufacturer and Builder</em>. Note the secondhand nature of the story, the specific but easily imagined details, and all of the other characteristics of the so-called "urban legend," subset, non-urban.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-62730467102731072662009-11-17T08:53:12.610-06:002009-11-17T08:53:12.610-06:00I don't remember where I read/heard/saw this, ...I don't remember where I read/heard/saw this, but I'm sure that recently I ran across the information that mummified human remains were used as fertilizer too. Does anyone else remember a recent article, TV show (in the States), or something on the internet that contained that information?Debnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-80448694504417668532009-11-17T02:47:54.001-06:002009-11-17T02:47:54.001-06:00Wow. And traditionally, the English are supposed t...Wow. And traditionally, the English are supposed to like animals more than they like people. Makes you wonder what they did with their deceased relatives...litlovehttp://litlove.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-88381147982681280822009-11-17T00:07:24.083-06:002009-11-17T00:07:24.083-06:00Yes, the mummy's curse extends to cats. At le...Yes, the mummy's curse extends to cats. At least if one part of the curse is wasting a lot of time researching a trivial topic.<br /><br />"Randomly interesting" seems so generous. But the cartoon is good. And after that, pre-Raphaelites getting squeamish about their paint.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-78295202603463215912009-11-16T16:43:53.340-06:002009-11-16T16:43:53.340-06:00Hmm. I wonder if the Mummy's Curse extends to ...Hmm. I wonder if the Mummy's Curse extends to cats?Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00305348683809503209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-73852517384077100302009-11-16T16:37:23.043-06:002009-11-16T16:37:23.043-06:00Most randomly interesting thing I've seen all ...Most randomly interesting thing I've seen all day. Thank you. I look forward to the cartoon tommorow.Arthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07615345242334094697noreply@blogger.com