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Elaine Cali is looking for the source of Melville's phrase "flame Baltic of Hell," used to describe Moby Dick's tail.

R.B. Beaman wants to locate a poem in which the line "My little Jimmy did not fecundate your pig!" appears.

Alice Reed seeks a poem that begins "[Men?/Those?] on whom the diamond snow/Has never fallen cannot know...."

Charles Hardy asks who wrote, or said, "A culture is a system in which people respond alike."

Daniel Blom seeks the source of "When I was young and bold and strong/Right was right and wrong was wrong."

Persis Herold requests the full text of a "Jabberwocky" parody that begins, "'Twas brillig and the Swastikoves/Did heil and hittle in the Reich."

M.L. Rein would like to find the essay by John Stuart Mill that begins, or is entitled, "Seek the truth."

John Maher seeks a source for the following comment by Joseph Schumpeter, made in a talk given shortly before his death: "Philosophy is the systematic abuse of a terminology expressly created for that purpose."

"the company he keeps" (January-February). David Todd noted that the first instance of this saying is attributed to Euripides in Phoenix (fragment 809).

"whose remembrance yet lives in men's eyes" (January-February). Anthony Shipps identified this reference to Julius Caesar from Shakespeare's Cymbeline (act 3, scene 1, lines 2-3).

"A fence...or an ambulance" (January-February). Anthony Shipps was the first to identify this poem by Joseph Malins, entitled "A Fence or an Ambulance," which appears in Hazel Felleman's collection, The Best Loved Poems of the American People (1936).

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