“Is the Armageddon thing happened yet?”
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On my way to pick up my meds (Tazo Organic <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Darjeeling Tea), I was at the edge of the sidewalk about to jaywalk across to Whole Foods when off to my left in the dimly streetlight-lit dark, I heard a woman’s voice ask someone, “Is the Armageddon thing happened yet?”
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Well, there is nothing one can possibly say about something so sublime, so terrifying. But that’s never slowed down pogblog before.
1. It really happened, in a kind of cross between poe & kafka. I whirled whiplashilly to my left, agog, hearing my telltale heart beating in the night made crepuscular by the eerie strontium-vapor streetlight.
2. “Is the Armageddon thing happened yet?” [sic] Sic means ‘thus,’ implying that a mistake in the sentence just written is from the original deliverer, not a typo of the scribe. Sic should be put right after the offending part, but jeez, it makes it so yucko to read then. It's also supposed to be italized, but then so is the Catholic Mass. (Yes, I know you know about sic, but we’re trying to reach a range of folks not all of whom are among the arcane-minutiae zealots of English-language giga-elite.)
3. Suppose she was right, the ancient street mariner? Suppose the Armageddon thing has already happened and we’re just not aware of it yet, not aligned with the Shining Truth yet? Maybe it’s like that before Enlightenment ‘wash the rice bowl'; after Enlightenment ‘wash the rice bowl’ thing?
4. The gods are fond of this sudden icepick made of ice hit tactic. They murder you with an icepick made of ice. Then the murder weapon melts and you’re left with a small hole and terminally out of breath. This give them the usual deitific deniability.
5. Samuel Johnson, lexicon artist, one of pogblog’s mentors, drank 60 cups of tea a day. My guess is that tea in those days was ‘organic’ by default. Pogblog doesn’t slosh down 60, but probably 15. You can’t chaindrink that much milky tea if it’s some harsh stomach-dissolving crud. The Tazo Organic Darjeeling (teabags) is fine stuff. (Their own regular Black Tea is a battery-acid equivalent.)
5a. How can doornail Sam be pogblog's mentor? (It's that same tone and sneeréd curl of lip you use when you say, “Yeah, and I bet you've seen unicorns too!”) Just because you don't do time travel and have ghostly guests doesn't in the slightest degree inhibit pogblog from same.
6.crepuscular sounds scary which is its overwrought irony-boosting purpose in the fablet, but means: like twilight or dim;
7. Maybe the Armageddon thing is past & we lived? We could let the patient people on the tedious Armageddon Watch go home to their famlies [sic]? We could just get on with the rest of Eternity after a restorative nap? Pogblog will cogitate on it for you.
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