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Who was it who said that wit is being able to connect any two things by means of a third? Schlegel? Lichtenberg? I think each has said something like that.

Today at dinner, entertaining an honored guest, Craig (pron. "Cregg") and I discussed, in a single stream, Mary, the pirate queen of Ireland, the fact that Hadrian's Wall was so deeply secured into the earth that it actually caused Scotland to drift free of England about 150 meters, leading the Scots to develop uncanny skills at sea (and also to plague the surrounding waters, and explaining the both the (re)United Kingdom's name and naval prowess), until rejoined by Arthur's knights, using joinery techniques now discussed on This Old House, a show rife with Masonic symbolism (the host's name too), and ballistic techniques often thought to have been rediscovered only in Renaissance Italy (and creating, before the mastery of those techniques, the lochs of Scotland; incidentally, there are many links between the Loch Ness monster, the Knights Templar, those little foam animal things you can expand in your sink, and the Library of Alexandria), but which were actually brought into Italy from England, along with the account of the splitting and rejoining itself, of which Macbeth is an allegory, that play also having been used by Welsh nationalists to combat Scottish home rule (it involves the curse, which actually doesn't doom productions, but instead causes earthquakes throughout Scotland), as well as the fact that gravity used to work in the other direction (this was actually extremely significant and received much exegetical attention), tauroctony, the identity of Jesus, Odin, and Isaac Newton, around whom gravity still did flow in the other direction (the apple hit his head because it had fallen to the ground from the tree, and then Newton hung himself upside down from the tree, following which the apple fell up into his head, granting him wisdom), bees (I can't remember what role bees played), the lucky fall (this actually has to do with gravity and our power of flight), the relative merits of sexual reproduction and spontaneous generation, and lots of other things I'm forgetting about.  Craig, perhaps, can fill us in in comments.  I admit that towards the end I started steamrolling Craig, commanding him to hold his peace while a scholar discoursed.  After all, he is but a lowly clerk.

This is my 501st post.  The URL for this page is, uh, intriguing, to say the least.

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[Peli]

Ah, hmmf, self-censorships never quite burns to the root as one would hope.