From reader E.:
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Thank you so much for this post. I noticed that the usual Sorcha language "a grim/disturbing/serious report circulating the Kremlin today" was missing, so I paid attention. While so much of the information was excellent, when I got to the end I nearly choked. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. The other time I laughed so hard that it hurt is related to this post.

Growing up in a small, liberal midwestern college town in the 60's had it's attractions, one of which was the graffiti on the bathroom walls of the local watering hole. When I encountered a mystery on the aforementioned wall, I asked my Jewish father what it meant: "Mene, mene, tekel upharsin". He laughed and said "It means: The handwriting is on the wall". I found that to be truly funny. Looked it up in the Old Testament and never forgot the phrase.

Many years later I discovered a superb Science Fiction writer, Orson Scott Card. At the risk of ruining the joke for those who have not read his "Alvin Maker" series, I will relate the following: Having read Ender's Game, I couldn't get enough of O.S. Card's writing, so I tackled the massive Alvin Maker series. I read and re-read the first two books in the series, completely taken with the story and his atmospheric style. Wonderful stuff, I thought. Somewhere past halfway in the third volume (spoiler alert), I came upon what to me was one of the funniest things I had ever read, that made the first three volumes seem to become the ultimate, elaborate "shaggy dog" story. While the plot of the series is too complex to go into here, it can be likened to Homer's "The Iliad and the Odyssey", but set in early America. In one of his many journeys, Alvin saw this upon the wall:

"Mean, mean, take all apart, son."

I laughed helplessly for days. Never did finish the series.

It is my great hope and great wish that the "Son" will return and will take all the mean stuff apart. It's way past time. Take that along with the information that our multidimensional connection to Something is given freely at the moment of conception; plus scientists have just "discovered" that our brain is multi-dimensional. Perhaps that simply means that we all need to wake up and realize that we are all the "daughter/son" and that WE have the power to take all the meanness apart. Now. In all dimensions.

Blessings,
E

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