Mosaic

MOSAIC, n. A kind of inlaid work. from Moses, who, when little was inlaid in a basket among the bulrushes.

2009 Update: adj. Composed of disparate members like a seamless argument or an an invention made from whole cloth.

The Reformation of Wolfshausen

Teil Vier-und-Dreizig

To hear Danny Boy read, click on the haystacks. Long-time Waking Ambrose family will remember Dan as an old friend of mine from Deep Springs.

To read this week's episode, click on Frau Braun's Apfelkuchen.

The story so far is here. Happy birthday to Dddragon!

Asperse

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.

2009 Update: To baptize by sputum into the grand fellowship of the slandered.

Adonis

ADONIS, n. A comely youth, remembered chiefly for his unkindness to Venus. He has been unjustly censured by those who forget that in his time goddesses were only ten cents a bunch.

2009 Update: The hero Andromeda awaited from the foam.

A Fable for Children

The Gull and The Goats

Once upon a time, a gull landed on a manger in front of a herd of goats. "Brothers and sisters," the gull squawked, "you live as slaves! The farmer tells you are there are wolves beyond your fence and you clump up cowardly on the land within that fence. The farmer tells you this straw, this grass, is food and you eat it. Surely I tell you, the farmer tells you these things because if you left the pasture he knows what you have forgotten, that you will take wing to the water, catch fish and prosper! Because if you flew over the ocean, as is your birthright, you would see his daughters rise from the depths on a clam shell!"

"The bird makes sense," muttered a nanny and returned to eating her tuna can.

Moral: Men will lie to hide even fictional truths.

JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY, n. A theory of government by which yeoman farmers undertake the vices of aristocrats.

Arrayed

ARRAYED, p.p. Drawn up and given an orderly disposition, as a rioter hanged to a lamppost.

2009 Update: Distributed for tyranted transcendence.

"Consider the lillies and how they're arrayed

Idle, unspun and quickly bouqueted." -St. Florence of Fasterbrook

Abjectly

ABJECTLY, adv. In the manner of a poor but honest person.

2009 Update: In the manner of a discovered dignitary.

The Reformation of Wolfshausen

Teil Drei-und-Dreizig

To hear my old man bear witness to the events of 1524, click on Huldrych Zwingli at right.

To read this week's episode, click on Thomas Münzer, as played by Robert Blake.

The story so far is here.

November

NOVEMBER, n. The eleventh twelfth of a weariness.

2009 Update: The month in which young men's thoughts turn to spring, and to which old men's thoughts turn in April.

Noumenon

NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only be a process of reasoning — which is a phenomenon. Nevertheless, the discovery and exposition of noumena offer a rich field for what Lewes calls "the endless variety and excitement of philosophic thought." Hurrah (therefore) for the noumenon.

2009 Update: The actual object denoted by a representational noun- in this case, a noun.