16. MOLOTO'S STORY
Eudaimonia literally means "to have a good daimon, a good guardian spirit"
Moloto said that when the fat cat arrived in Molotoland, he bought the book shop, converted half of it into a shebeen. Teachers and pupils flocked to the book shop to drink together.
The fat cat feared the king's men, especially Moloto, since he read much and divined the fat cat's schemes. He tried to chop Moloto's tongue down, but Moloto jumped over his ambush, with the ancestors' help.
Moloto took the magicked beer can, meant to zombify him, to a witchdoctor for backfiring. Moloto could not read the bones, but they told the witchdoctor that Moloto should avoid spirits.
17. THE END OF THE MEANS
Any action can only be propagated by a velocity smaller than or equal to the velocity of light
The Buddhist monastery was embedded high upon the mountain slope. It overlooked a lush valley. Only one path, narrow and dangerous, led from the monastery to the valley below. The unageing monks sat in eternal meditation and communicated with the stars.
Then, by a marvel of modern technology, a prefabricated building was flown into the beautiful valley, to hold the annual physics conference. Almost before the whole building had been erected, the conference was over, and the scientists left, pleased at having proved relativity.
Unaware of the activity below, the monks continued their instantaneous exchange of thoughts with extra-terrestrial minds.
18. THE CLAIRVOYANT
Logic and likelihood thus both require us to regard the pyramid as the solid figure that is the basic unit or seed of fire...
The clairvoyant handed her customer the Fool; she held the Magician.
Up the road the wise old man retired to his study. From the Republic he had learned all about the soul. But now he wrote about nature:
The modern scientific ideas of the periodic table and of the quantified measurement of physical change come from Plato's atomistic and geometric theory of the four elements. Archaic systems of divination prefer his numerological mysticism...
She read the cards, first the major arcana, then the numbers and elements of the minor trumps. They told her to send the Fool to the Hermit.
19. MOLOTO'S BAPTISM
The ZCC priests threw Moloto into the healing springs of Moria, then reeled him in.
They waved paper over a used coke bottle, half-filled with water from the springs, and chanted Genesis 1:2. They explained that Moloto need no longer fear bewitched beer since their high priest, Chief Minister of God, had power over water, and therefore over everything.
To purge himself of evil spirits, Moloto had to drink daily many litres of tea, blessed by and bought from the ZCC, and mixed with a few drops of the holy water.
Moloto was now no longer master of his own water.
20. THE BEGGAR BOY
When a beggar boy asked a housewife for eight rand to retrieve his trousers from the dry-cleaners, she decided to test him.
She drove him to the dry-cleaners. They denied knowledge of his trousers. He then asked her to drive him to a housemaid, employed in a neighbouring suburb, who had patched another pair of his trousers.
The housemaid demanded twelve rand for her work, but accepted the housewife’s offer of ten for the threadbare trousers, knowing the boy would never pay. The beggar boy exclaimed delightedly that, having found smart trousers, he could go to Sun City to gamble.
Eudaimonia literally means "to have a good daimon, a good guardian spirit"
Moloto said that when the fat cat arrived in Molotoland, he bought the book shop, converted half of it into a shebeen. Teachers and pupils flocked to the book shop to drink together.
The fat cat feared the king's men, especially Moloto, since he read much and divined the fat cat's schemes. He tried to chop Moloto's tongue down, but Moloto jumped over his ambush, with the ancestors' help.
Moloto took the magicked beer can, meant to zombify him, to a witchdoctor for backfiring. Moloto could not read the bones, but they told the witchdoctor that Moloto should avoid spirits.
17. THE END OF THE MEANS
Any action can only be propagated by a velocity smaller than or equal to the velocity of light
The Buddhist monastery was embedded high upon the mountain slope. It overlooked a lush valley. Only one path, narrow and dangerous, led from the monastery to the valley below. The unageing monks sat in eternal meditation and communicated with the stars.
Then, by a marvel of modern technology, a prefabricated building was flown into the beautiful valley, to hold the annual physics conference. Almost before the whole building had been erected, the conference was over, and the scientists left, pleased at having proved relativity.
Unaware of the activity below, the monks continued their instantaneous exchange of thoughts with extra-terrestrial minds.
18. THE CLAIRVOYANT
Logic and likelihood thus both require us to regard the pyramid as the solid figure that is the basic unit or seed of fire...
The clairvoyant handed her customer the Fool; she held the Magician.
Up the road the wise old man retired to his study. From the Republic he had learned all about the soul. But now he wrote about nature:
The modern scientific ideas of the periodic table and of the quantified measurement of physical change come from Plato's atomistic and geometric theory of the four elements. Archaic systems of divination prefer his numerological mysticism...
She read the cards, first the major arcana, then the numbers and elements of the minor trumps. They told her to send the Fool to the Hermit.
19. MOLOTO'S BAPTISM
The ZCC priests threw Moloto into the healing springs of Moria, then reeled him in.
They waved paper over a used coke bottle, half-filled with water from the springs, and chanted Genesis 1:2. They explained that Moloto need no longer fear bewitched beer since their high priest, Chief Minister of God, had power over water, and therefore over everything.
To purge himself of evil spirits, Moloto had to drink daily many litres of tea, blessed by and bought from the ZCC, and mixed with a few drops of the holy water.
Moloto was now no longer master of his own water.
20. THE BEGGAR BOY
When a beggar boy asked a housewife for eight rand to retrieve his trousers from the dry-cleaners, she decided to test him.
She drove him to the dry-cleaners. They denied knowledge of his trousers. He then asked her to drive him to a housemaid, employed in a neighbouring suburb, who had patched another pair of his trousers.
The housemaid demanded twelve rand for her work, but accepted the housewife’s offer of ten for the threadbare trousers, knowing the boy would never pay. The beggar boy exclaimed delightedly that, having found smart trousers, he could go to Sun City to gamble.