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41 1 SOME PEOPLE HAVE CALLED ME PROCRASTINATING: Cf. Page's (Japp's)
_Life_, Chap. XIX, and Japp's _De Quincey Memorials_, Vol. II,
pp. 45,47,49-
42 11 THE WHOLE PAGAN PANTHEON: i.e. all the gods put together; from
the Greek _Pantheion_, a temple dedicated to all the gods.
43 2 SEVEN ATMOSPHERES OF SLEEP, ETC.: Professor Hart suggests that De
Quincey is here "indulging in jocular arithmetic. The three nights plus
the three days, plus the present night, equal seven." Dr. Cooper
compares with this a reference to the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. But it
seems doubtful whether any explanation is necessary.
43 17 LILLIPUTIAN LANCASTER: the county town of Lancashire, in which
Liverpool and Manchester, towns of recent and far greater growth, are
situated.
44 (footnote) "Giraldus Cambrensis," or Gerald de Barry (1146-1220),
was a Welsh historian; one of his chief works is the _Itinerarium
Cambrica_, or Voyage in Wales.
47 2 QUARTERING: De Quincey's derivation of this word in his footnote
is correct, but its use in this French sense is not common. De Quincey,
however, has it above, p. 11.
49 8 THE SHOUT OF ACHILLES: Cf. Homer, _Iliad_, XVIII, 217 _et
seq_.
50 10 BUYING IT, ETC.: De Quincey refers, no doubt, to the pay of
common soldiers and to the practice of employing mercenaries.
52 1 FASTER THAN EVER MILL-RACE, ETC.
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