“The worst of Weirisome making our flesh creep by his ventriloquial talents is, that we get a little mixed about his points.”

“Thus the simplest cause of ventriloquial effect is produced by standing with your back to the audience and your face to the door.”

“Probably his ventriloquial powers are cultivated not for popular entertainment, but to lure intruders away from his nest.”

“They can assemble strings of jargon and generate clots of ventriloquistic syntax.”

“This collection showcases the almost ventriloquistic powers of a dazzling writer over nearly half a century.”

“And there lies its depth and darkness, bravely concealed with all the wit and sleight of hand and ventriloquistic verbiage and tale-telling bravura of which Mitchell is a master.”