# Shift — Passages from the Life of a Philosopher character guide

> Shift in Passages from the Life of a Philosopher by Charles Babbage.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Shift, Shift Laughing

**First appearance:** 0040-xxii-scene-from-a-new-afterpiece-called-politics-and-poetry-or-the-decline-of-science

## Who they are

A character in Babbage's satirical play, a schemer.

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