We were tickled by this mention of a Ouija board lying at an impish angle on a table (from Ouija: A Farce Comedy in One Act by Morris McNeil Musselman, 1920).  That inspired our own diagram about how to determine impish angles.  [For Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.]

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook.  (Previously, we examined a Hermetic secret from Ithell Colquhoun's Goose of Hermogenes, as well as her takes on volcanoes, the two fish that swim in our sea, and how the sea's voice can only be heard by the ear of a shell.)

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

"A rainbow spans the horizon for as long as your heart needs to reconcile itself to life." —Michel Tournier (as quoted in A Thousand Plateaus by Deleuze & Guattari).

You've heard that "a horse is a horse, of course, of course."  But here's our explanation of why a racehorse is less like a workhorse than a workhorse is like an ox (as per Deleuze & Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus).  The science of ethology doesn't define a body by species or genus but rather counts affects.  Hence, workhorses and oxen are similar in that they both pull heavy burdens, are dirty, are tethered, move slowly, work long days, and are crucial to farm production.  A racehorse is none of those things: it is unburdened, clean, untethered, can gallop, works short days on the track and not the field, is well-groomed, and wins trophies.  How does all this relate to being one's own cat?  A cat-person is more like a Persian cat than an indoor cat is like an alley cat.  For further explanation, easy tips, and immediate results, see How To Be Your Own Cat.  (And yes, we really did go to all this trouble to justify a tie-in to our book.  That's how important it all is.)

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook.  (Previously, we examined a Hermetic secret from Ithell Colquhoun's Goose of Hermogenes, as well as her takes on volcanoes and on the two fish that swim in our sea.)

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook, a Hermetic secret.  (Previously, we examined another Hermetic secret from Ithell Colquhoun's Goose of Hermogenes, as well as her take on volcanoes.)

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook.  (Previously, we examined a Hermetic secret from Ithell Colquhoun's Goose of Hermogenes.)

"The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard." —Barbara Tuchman

And here we had thought that the fallen tree nobody heard was an old chestnut.

Celebrated novelist and grammarian Martha Brockenbrough asks, "Is Tinker Bell a particle or a wave?"  Tinker Bell is a wave, except when she lights.

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

Q: How do comic hats float?

A: To create levity, we must make light.

[For Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.  Hats off to you!]

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook.  The text reads: "A Norwegian fjord tent for the bookish.  This tent (unlabeled) appears in Norway in 1848 and 1849 by Thomas Forester."