So - alt.magick - have a good one. :-)
Love unto Will,
Dar es Alrah.
"It is now the month of December, when the greatest part of the city
is in a bustle. Loose reins are given to public dissipation;
everywhere you may hear the sound of great preparations, as if there
were some real difference between the days devoted to Saturn and those
for transacting business... Were you here, I would willingly confer
with you as to the plan of our conduct; whether we should eve in our
usual way, or, to avoid singularity, both take a better supper and
throw off the toga." -- Seneca the Younger, 50AD.
And let us not forget that fine old Christmas custom among Catholics
(instituted by Paul II in 1466 and continuing with some variants until
the 1800's), the Running of the Naked Jews.
“Before they were to run, the Jews were richly fed, so as to make the
race more difficult for them and at the same time more amusing for
spectators. They ran… amid Rome’s taunting shrieks and peals of
laughter, while the Holy Father stood upon a richly ornamented balcony
and laughed heartily.” -- Quote from an eye-witness, cited in David
I. Kertzer's "The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican’s Role in the
Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism", 2001, p. 74.
Best wishes to all, and to all a good night.
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> So - alt.magick - have a good one. :-)
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Merry Christmas