In the Writing Burrow

Here is the Pythia, chief prognosticator of the Delphic Oracle, which operated from 800 BCE to 400 AD. The bowl is a water mirror, like Galadriel’s and Ayesha’s of She. The laurel leaves were sacred to Apollo, and also hallucinogenic when chewed. The cleft in the rock was said to emit intoxicating fumes. Too much of this was dangerous to the Pythia’s health. She...

You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs. - Count von Pahlen, assassinator of Tzar Paul 1 of Russia, 1801.

In honour of the upcoming election in the United States, I’m republishing 3 oracular posts I wrote about the 2024 presidential election. Let’s see how the Oracle did…

Okay kids, here it comes. You voted for obscure pronunciations about the Future, more specifically the upcoming American election; and, ever happy to oblige, I am hereby providing some.

When I heard A Certain Orange Person say that every country had a Triumphal Arch and so the United States had to have one too, I wondered if Canada had a triumphal arch. It does have an arch of sorts in Ottawa, but it’s not a triumphal arch: it’s a war memorial, put up after WW 1 and adding several other wars in which Canadians punched above their weight. It doesn’t say Hoora...

Here is the thing that all your subscription money goes to, getting set up for the Grand Opening, which took pl...