Erstwhile Okie on St. Mark's Place. "That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past."
Averill introducing his great-grandfather to Thomas the Tank Engine.
He arrives at Tidmouth sheds and stumbles out of Winston, highly agitated and largely incoherent as his ravings wake the slumbering steam engines.
"Thomas has seen the answer
It came to him in a dream.
From now on we've all decided
Together we'll stay a team."
Thomas' supernatural inspiration to use common sense always makes me guffaw and is the reason I hold up "Calling All Engines" to any better known entry in the canon.