Loved the new installment, Cathryn. You've again captured his magniloquent style perfectly. Why do you have his pique being due to the LOB's failure to recognize his great-grandfather's achievement? As I recall he actually waxes wroth mostly due to the antipodean rabble's failure to recognize his own achievement (discovery of a gold-bearing ore deposit, IIRC).

Another fruitful approach would be to explore his antipathy toward "the true GeOOOOlogy" and its pathetic, wormlike adherents.

Has he responded yet to your merciless parody?

I've added your "Rocket City" to my Amazon wish-list. I'm finishing up my last semester at school, and will finally have time for some recreational reading. BTW - my final essay in European Lit calls on me to compare Chaucer's Wife of Bath with Don Quixote. Any hints?

Mike Williams
Arroyo Grande, CA USA