# Hum Drum — Short Fiction character guide

> Hum Drum in Short Fiction by George MacDonald.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Hum - Drum

**First appearance:** 0000-a-double-story

## Who they are

A minor character.

## In the story

### [VII: Try Metaphysics](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_21_se/chapters/vii-try-metaphysics)

Hum-Drum, a materialist philosopher, argues that the princess's condition is due to a reversed heart motion and proposes a drastic physical cure involving bloodletting and air-pumps.

### [Try a Drop of Water](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_21_se/chapters/viii-try-a-drop-of-water)

One of the philosophers who recommends burying the princess alive and later suggests making her cry to restore gravity.

### [Hiss!](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_21_se/chapters/xi-hiss)

Attempts to discover the cause of the lake's decrease through physics and metaphysics, but fails.

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