Comments on: The Person From Porlock

By: Raine Szramski

Raine Szramski — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:34:41 +0000

I’m a huge Coleridge fan and I was randomly googling him (sounds somewhat lewd…) and discovered your brilliant comic for the first time. Thank you! Thank you!! Ada as an action hero, I love it. Just wanted to write you a gushing fan note…

By: Illustration Friday: Subterranean « Errantry

Illustration Friday: Subterranean « Errantry — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:08:54 +0000

[...] relevant post is The Person from Porlock, and the supporting material includes a reference to Charles Babbage’s “highly-targeted [...]

By: Porlock Junior

Porlock Junior — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:50:21 +0000

Well, of course the person called Porlock tried to inform Sherlock Holmes of an impending murder, but was scared off. (Valley of Fear) It has been suggested that the Camberwell poisoning case, which Holmes solved by winding he dead man's watch, involved Porlock, in, shall we say, an extremely prejudicial way. This is an amazing, if often baffling, site and comic, btw. Even without Porlock.

By: Corvus

Corvus — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:41:07 +0000

With Lovelace lighting up that pipe at the end, I couldn’t help thinking, “Porlock Holmes?”

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:44:40 +0000

Please keep up the fantastic creativity with this comic featuring Babbage and Lovelace with the occasional appearance of Brunel, the engineer. Lady Ada Lovelace along with Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (USN) were true pioneers in the computing sciences.

By: 2D Goggles » The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

2D Goggles » The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:46:10 +0000

[...] Lovelace and Babbage Vs The Economy. Lovelace and Babbage Vs The Client Depending on how you define ‘complete’: The Person From Porlock [...]

By: tudza

tudza — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:31:42 +0000

That business with the one dead and some greater number born reminds me of my favorite joke

You life 16 1/2 tons and what do you get? Another 1 and 1/32 days older and deeper in debt.

By: musiccaptain

musiccaptain — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:51:15 +0000

I was doing some research into a Purcell piece today and in the UBC music library I found a facsimile edition of “A Selection of Hebrew melodies ancient and modern” with texts by Byron (!). Did you know about this? Another very weird Byron detail I had not known of! In the introduction there was a reproduction of an 1816 cartoon “Fare Thee Well” which depicts Byron sailing away from the infant Ada and her mother. Not terribly relevant to your cartoon, but would you like me to email it to you?

Terry Pitt-Brooke

By: Jha

Jha — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:33:00 +0000

OMG.

I LOVE YOU.

(I hate Kubla Khan.)

By: FelixSputnik

FelixSputnik — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:16:50 +0000

Ah, Lady Padua,
How queere, thou shouldst resort to interfereing with the great Samuel Taylor.
You are not the first.
in 1987 one Douglas Noel Adams allowed holistic detective Dirk Gently to confuse Coleridge out of properly penning the “rhyme of the ancient mariner”, in an attempt to save the world from alien invasion, the means of which were encoded in the poem.
It, and it’s follow up, the “long dark teatime of the soul” are two of my favourite books and there may be a yet undiscovered reason, why Coleridge must always be prevented from finishing his work without alteration.
I wonder what else would have happened, had he been allowed to…

Felix