eggnostic

Updated: May 18, 2025

Mallory Tompkins was a young man with long legs and check trousers who worked on the Mariposa Times-Herald. That was what gave him his literary taste. He used to read Ibsen and that other Dutch author Bumstone Bumstone, isn't it? and you can judge that he was a mighty intellectual fellow. He was so intellectual that he was, as he himself admitted, a complete eggnostic.

Stephen Leacock - Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town