Full Description
Whimwondery is the academical study of the magickal properties of elemental curiosity and its two sub-particles - whimsy and wonder. For, as perhaps you have felt yourself deep down in your gizzards, in every spark of curiosity, every maddening ponderation, every look of bafflement and inquisitive squint, is power beyond reckoning. Though not, as has been discovered, entirely beyond the capacities of our imaginations. Indeed, as we have sought to know more about Whimwondery, we have slowly stumbled upon its useful, worthy, and practical applications for solving vexsome sundry irks and problems which arouse particular and general bother - from cold custard to the meaning of the universe. This alphabetarium includes a smattering of such curious contraptions from Agatha Aspinal's Auspicious Archaeofuturometer, to Zurishaddai Zirdlestone's Zooshing Zenithender. Though a mere sampling of some of the inventions devised to channel whimwondrous phenomena they are sure to delight and amuse all whom you would care to furnish with such an odd and uncategorisable tome (in no particular order): acquaintances, friends, friends-of-friends, jilted-lovers, distant relations, neighbours, academical colleagues, drinking-pals, the local parson, your mother and other assorted personages. A splendid gift for all of them, most assuredly!
Contents
Agatha Aspinal's Auspicious Archaeofuturometer; Bertram, Bishop of Bumblechester's Brilliant Bustdustbuster; Charlotte Chomondeley-Coyte's Curious Custardolopododdler; Daphne, Duchess of Dorsetshire's Delightful Drinkibbledibbler; Eustace Eddington Esq.'s Enormous Endowerwhopper; Flossie FitzFrederick's Ferocious Fiendboshdongle; General George Gillis-Garsington-Gilfeather's Grandiloquent Gramophubbubler; The Hon. Hugh Hampton-Holdsworth's Haggard Hourhaggler; Isolde Inchebrooke's Irascible Inlinequekeeper; John St. John Jr.'s Jolly Jigglegigglejigger; Katherine Knoughborough's Kindly Kittencareener; Lady Larissa Longmore's Laudable Ludditetrongler; Messrs MacMavor, Milton & Mappin's Mollifying Melanchollycoddler; Norbertina Norrington's Nimble Nookbookling; Ophelia Osborne's Obsessive Oddsockmeetsocker; Professor Peregrine Prufrock-Parker's Pleasant Passionsmoocher; The Queen's Quarrelsome Quibbler; The Rupertswood Rugby & Rowing Club's Ravenous Recipidishler; Sir Saul Saintsbury-Sims' Salubrious Swaggerumpusoon; Teddy T. Trevelyan III's Tasteful Triglyphodraughter; Uncle Uriah's Uncomfortable Unspokenator; Vita, Viscountess Vanburgh's Verdant Vinevertuperator; Wilhelmina Waslett's Winsome Waxwaner; Xerxes's Xylocmacing Xylocanidivonator; Yolanda Yarborough's Yearning Yonderywander; Zurishaddai Zirdlestone's Zooshing Zenithender
