In the third of Murchison Morks’ tall tales at the gentlemen’s club, he tells of
mathematics professor Alexander Peabody who discovers an equation that, if concentrated upon
firmly, projects him back into the body of a goose at the time of a Celtic attack on Rome.
He was sure it would work. But when he confided his dreams to his sister Martha, she,
woman-like, merely sniffed. She called him a goose.