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wtede exclusively to thfc ashes . [ It te'all o * fcr With hihsii Is it a feihdef that L see before me ; the shwrf towards itty hand ? Of this fact , there is a fate-tempting proof . Come , ' tet me clutch thee ? I have thee not , which is a very cruel case ; but yet , melancholy to relate , I see thee still ! This is tantalizing and extraordinary . Art thou not , fatal vision , sensible to feeling as
to sight ? a question not to be asked ; or wert thou but a sweet dream of the mind of Pivot and all his race , turning to cinders , ashes , and lost dust , when they would feel thy fires ? Ah , there ' s the rub ! The French translate this by Voila la difficult *?; but we are not always so wise as we think , in laughing at the French . All this is entre nous—my ghost and I—and , perhaps , oblivion is a better judge of the case than either of the parties concerned . We can proceed no further in this business !'
A murmur ran through the hall as Mr . Pivot paused , f Pivot has lost himself ! it is all-over with his speech ! ' exclaimed several voices . ' Let us stone him to death , before he recovers himself ! ' shouted the head professor of the Snapdragons ; * Let us cut , maim , crucify , burn , and spiphlicate the sumph , for his family name is mentioned with some respect in the " Exposition of the False Medium ! " All such men , and even the shadows of
them , who gabble about genius , should be sunk for ever ; I swear it by Von Meux and Co . Down with that shadow of a Pivot !' ( I Before any one could echo the unprincipled shout , Mr . Pivot lifted up his head quite recovered from his reverie . I humbly beg pardon * said he , of all the lady and gentlemen puppets here
assembled , for having indulged at too great length , not merely in a particular vein ; for it was a general—a class I may say ; but ohe that I feel bound to confess was not universal ; and that is why I apologize . But to return to my oration , for the once joyous nymphs and beatified muses cry aloud to me from their desecrated abodes ! I hear their voices on the winds—I see their
forfns in the air—I obey their injunctions !' 4 Is there any end to it V usked Count Riddlecap Ratafie . * There is no end , ' answered Lord Snakeskin ; * nothin g can stop the human tongue . Talking is hereditary . ' Mr . Pivot resumed . ' ' Natiire is one large clock ; and every individual thing in nature is in itself a little clock . In every little clock , there are clocks , ad infinitum . The little clocks are as perfect , according to * their class , and the duties they have to perform , as the great
orte : for they all go upon the same principle , and are of similar construction , with the exception of the main-spring . With respect to the main-spring , or primum mobile , I shall be silent . The Mibject cannot be adapted to the understanding of puppets . Let tih confine ourselves to a just consideration of the mechanism of arnall ctacVs . I need scarcely inform you that they are filled with springs , chains , and wheels . Some of these wheels have " teeth / ' Bimply as . such ; others fangs ; " other * are circled with
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1835, page 338, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2645/page/46/
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