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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 12, Issue 9 (December 1, 1937.)

Carnival Within the Walls of Whimsey

Carnival Within the Walls of Whimsey.

Father O'Christmas is the nebulous necromancer who waves a wand and makes the impossible possible; who creates disorder in the old order and turns the tables on Earnest Endeavour, the boy with the two left-handed feet. It is Father O'Christmas who holds high carnival within the walls of Whimsey and tosses peevish Perseverance from the ramparts of Razz. He it is who paints the portals of Posh pink, puce and purple and gives Reality the raspberry.

He prods you in the wish-bone and—lo!—you are high. He whispers of things men have forgotten in their hopeless endeavour to cope with the blessings of civilisation and—hey, presto!—you are as one who has looked into the well and found it well. He it is who page 23 makes your mind Yuletidy, who broadcasts the glad Yuletidings and gets you lit up with the glow which won't wash off.