1. Every man ... is the slave of some woman or other.

By a woman, I'm fairly sure of it.

2. ... conjunctions, oppositions, aspects, eclipses...

The Latin-speaker is not a human being.

3. Them feet-folks from York and Leeds...

It probably helps to work out which port this episode is set in.

4. I am Hicky-hawky-pawky,
   The Unmitigated Blackbird.

With music by Frederic Clay.

5. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

An American, although he sounds French.

6. ... big letters along the side of the wooden fish...

This is a children's book. The author's father was a professor at Leeds University.

7. Certainly Dr Dee was a Cambridge man...

A fictional work about Oxford dons. I suppose that was evident.

8. Thor glanced down at the map on his knees...

Not Terry Pratchett, but perhaps his most successful rival.

9. Mathématiques --- Dessèchent le coeur.

Qu'avez-vous donc? des chemins de fer, des fabriques, des chimistes, des mathématiciens. Oui, le corps est mieux, la chair souffre moins, mais le coeur saigne toujours.

10. 'What can you do? Do you know anything besides that useless trash of college learning --- Greek, Latin and so forth?'

Also by a woman. I'm sure this time, although she once hid the fact.

11.  Those twins of learning that he raised in you,
     Ipswich and Oxford! 

Naming the town associated with this writer would be an instant giveaway.

12. Mein junger Sohn fragt mich: Soll ich Mathematik lernen?

Also famous for plays and a libretto.

J.R.P. 2/3/00