Did you know that there's a folder called Corpus in the base game's files? It contains three text files, supposedly with excerpts of dissertations in them. I don't think they're used anywhere in the game, but the style lines up with some of the more academic pieces in the game, notably by 
Q Girl and 
Barathrum the Old. EDIT: I now know where they come from! Thanks Sol. Links for the three on Project Gutenberg are here.
- Meteorology; or, Weather Explained by J. G. M'Pherson
- Thought-Forms by Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater
- The Machinery of the Universe: Mechanical Conceptions of Physical Phenomena by A. E. Dolbear
Though no fixed conclusions are yet established about the causes of the brilliant auroral display, yet, as the results of laborious observations, we are assured that the stabler centre of our solar system holds in its powerful sway the several planets at their respective distances, supplying them all with their seasonable light and heat, vibrating sympathetic chords in all, and even controlling under certain--though to us still unknown--laws the electric streamers that flit, apparently lawlessly, in the distant earth's atmosphere. |