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Panjandrum
The Grand Panjandrum. A village boss, who imagines himself the
“Magnus Apollo” of his neighbours. The word occurs in Foote's farrago
of nonsense which he composed to test the memory of old Macklin, who
said he had brought his memory to such perfection that he could
remember anything by reading it over once.
I myself knew a man at college who could do the same. He would
repeat accurately one hundred lines of Greek by reading them twice
over, although he could not accurately translate them. His memory was
marvellous, but its uselessness was still more so.
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