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Goodreads asked Ichabod Temperance:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Ichabod Temperance Well you see, what happened was, our friend, President Samuel Clemens, invited Miss Plumtartt and me on a steamship visit to the Russias. While we were there, Tsar Knucklaus and Tsarina Spaundexandra invited us to the circus. Well what do you know, the circus animals went on a rampage! Our grandstand collapsed and I got knocked loopy. When I came around again, instead of it being the year 1877 like it ought to be, I am in the Dark Ages! A feller in highly polished armour took me prisoner. He took me to his leader who turned out to be King Arthur! Imagine that, a gifted Alabama tinker in the company of King Arthur. You might think an accomplished inventor like myself would do all right in Camelot, but there are lots of mean magicians and gnarly knights who want to snuff me out. Gosh, if I ain't careful, all of Western Civilisation might not ever come to be!

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