As stated before, Larry says High D personalities are “often wrong, never in doubt.”

[A]s the Doctor neither did this, nor yet sent him an answer, the projector wrote a second letter […].

I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.

In the fell clutch of circumstance / I have not winced nor cried aloud. / Under the bludgeonings of chance / My head is bloody, but unbowed.