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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 3 (July 1, 1930)
Homocriticisms
Homocriticisms.
Strange indeed are the ways of man, and amazing the avenues of human endeavour; but it is the nature of the homocrat to be constantly doing something or someone. He must at all costs, or even at sale price, find something upon which to project his ultra-violent rays; before and since the days of the chiropodist king—William the Corn-curer—man has been busy rearranging nature. When he has finished conquering the earth and the air he doubtless will reassemble the sign of the Zodiac and straighten out the kinks in the Spiral Nebula.
In the meantime he expends his lack of leisure in seeing how fast he can leave the scenery behind him; never will he relinquish his rotary rondos until he can whirl round the world with such auto-celerity that he will catch up with his
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own exhaust and lose his hat in his own backwash. Admittedly the world is man's oyster, but the best of bivalves resent being skated on, ad infinitum and “pro multum skidaddlum”; while, in truth, an oyster is a slippery customer when it comes out of its shell, its utility as a means of speedy travel is liable to become impaired by a too constant contact with the human heel.
“Insufficiently garbed in a strange device.”
“The cold-jiggers.”