Q. K. Philander Doesticks

Q. K. Philander Doesticks
Q. K. Philander Doesticks was the pen name of Mortimer Thomson, a 19th-century American humorist and journalist. He gained fame with his satirical writings, especially in the book "Doesticks: What He Says," a collection of humorous essays published in 1855. Thomson's work often parodied popular culture, politics, and social norms of his time, using wit and absurdity to entertain his audience. He also co-authored "Plu-ri-bus-tah: A Song That's by No Author," a satire on the epic poem "Hiawatha" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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THERE were no two horses to be seen winding along the base of a precipitous hill; and there were no dark-looking riders on those horses which were not to be seen; and it wasn't at the close of a dusky autumn evening; and the setting sun didn't gild, with his departing rays, the steep summit of the mountain tops; and the gloomy cry of the owl was not to be heard from the depths of a... more...

CHAPTER I. WHICH IS MERELY EXPLANATORY. The first undertaking of the author of these pages will be to convince his readers that he has not set about making a merely funny book, and that the subject of which he writes is one that challenges their serious and earnest attention. Whatever of humorous description may be found in the succeeding chapters, is that which grows legitimately out of certain... more...

I, Q. K. P. Doesticks, of No Hall, Nowhere; No Castle, no Villa, no Place, Court, or Terrace; Who didn’t write “Junius,” or “Nothing to Wear,” Who never have visited London or Paris; Who am not a phantom, a myth, or a mystery, But a “homo,” as solid as any of history; As real as Antony, Cæsar, or Brutus,— A wide-awake Yankee, so “tarnation ’cute” as To always write Nothings,... more...