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Updated: May 11, 2025
But though there is a good deal of remark throughout the work in a half-serious, half-comic style upon dress, it seems to be in reality a treatise upon the great science of Things in General, which Teufelsdrockh, is supposed to have professed at the university of Nobody-knows-where.
And here's my little locket I lost last summer! How did they come here?" "They went Nobody-knows-where," said Baby. "And this is it." "But cannot I have them again?" asked Jem. "No," answered Baby. "Things that go to Nobody-knows-where stay there." "Oh!" sighed Jem, "I am so sorry." "They are only old things," said Baby. "But I like my old things," said Jem. "I love them.
It has been our fortune to visit several portions of the German territory, and to examine pretty carefully, at different times and for various purposes, maps of the whole; but we have no recollection of any such place. We suspect that the city of Know-not-where might be called, with at least as much propriety, Nobody-knows-where, and is to be found in the kingdom of Nowhere.
I don't know that it is much of a compliment to say that I has more confidence in you than I has in these here men what has come down from nobody-knows-where to open a bank on nobody-knows-what." Keith expressed his appreciation of the compliment, but thought that they must have something to bank on. "Oh, they've got something," admitted the capitalist. "But you know what it is.
"In short, our private opinion is, as we have remarked, that the whole story of a correspondence with Germany, a university of Nobody-knows-where, a Professor of Things in General, a Counsellor Grasshopper, a Flower-Goddess Blumine, and so forth, has about as much foundation in truth as the late entertaining account of Sir John Herschel's discoveries in the moon.
"I don't care about this place," she said, as she threw open the door. "It has nothing but old things in it. It is the Nobody-knows-where room." She had scarcely finished speaking before Jem made a little spring and picked something up. "Here's my old strawberry pincushion!" she cried out. And then, with another jump and another dash at two or three other things, "And here's my old fairy-book!
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