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DOCTOR DRYASDUST
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY
SALOMON’S HOUSE
BENSALEM
Dear Gentlemen:
In re Someone challenging the exegete as to what stamps are basically used for; where they
can be procured; the study of them. The exegete would like to consider the implication of
the foremost part of the challenge as to what they are basically used for; the answer being to
pay for the mailing service of a letter; which implicates a letter or an epistle. The postage, in
the form of a stamp, as of the Date on the Letter, for a First-Class mail, is Fifty-Five Cents;
she is called ‘Forever’ meaning her Value stayeth the same irrespective of fluctuations in the
Postal Rate. As for where they can be procured and the study of them, this letter does not
deal with; that said, the exegete usually buys stamps from the United States Postal Service
and definitives from Walgreens. The locus standi being that of an exegete, and the topic at
hand being an ‘epistle’, he chose to discuss an issue of hermeneutics, in the form of a letter,
of a very important verse from the scripture along with an appeal to formally adorn her with
a crown as a bride adorneth herself with jewels. Quod sequitur ad litteram:
If one were to choose a verse from all of The Canon and crown it the title, "Her Majesty of The
Verse", it would indubitably be John 1:1. The reason being its potency. Let us not be a wee-
bit hasty in crediting the lyrical nature, of the popular version, to its regale status. Please
read Wicliff; please do read Tyndale; nay, read the very Greek, at its source, from the mouth
of the Irish Thoroughbred (as an aside, as for the Gray Mare being the Better Horse, it
depends on the couple, gentlemen. We are not here to pass witty judgements on others. Who
gets to wear the Pants has been a sensitive debate of late [The other day the exegete, a
person who is usually critiqued as an Inquisitor of Manners, had to encounter an awkward
situation where he, going by the normalcy of the world and its Etiquette, greeted a Lady with,
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For a prophet to earnestly consider and re-translate, at length, such a Verse, so as to make
clear what it means, rather, what it should mean, must have been done with much
deliberation; with much intent. Hence, the exegete appeals to you to pay heed to various
translations of the Verse, in different languages, liturgical or not, and finally land upon
Prophet Joseph, The Junior's verse, to be in a well trained position, and be as prepared as a
Boy Scout, to discern a distinction. The very distinction, you will come to realize, rests not
just in the language, but the hermeneutics of it. As for the other criticism, the elongation of
the Original Pithiness, one can only say that the lack of the Original Pithiness is
compensated by a tropological reading in the form of a cosmological poetry, and establishing
a smooth continuity, like how a well-sharpened Graphite Pencil would go over Conic sections,
avoiding the saltatory leaps of The Macropodidae, of the very Plan we were preached in the
form of a Merry Tiding; it could not be preached otherwise. It had to be Terry and Merry, with
Cherry and Berry (if only you would take the other moment you had reserved for your better-
half to appreciate the Rhyme, the cousin of aforementioned Pun). Such was the
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Gentlemen, its time to Close, and is Half-past the usual Bedtime of the exegete, who
consciously avoids The Art of Elucubration and hence saves those precious drops of
Nocturnal Oil:
Oh, the Witching Time of Night, which Witch,bays, the Wee-Wee calls, at the Moon;
The Owl Muse of Rhyme, in Spite, from Ditch, plays, the Gee-Gee squalls, too soon!
Closing is an Art of the Rhetoric; Art of the Epistle. Let the exegete make his best attempt to
keep it terse.
We are not talking Acts 45:67, or Hewbrews 39:28, or why and wherefore, the Parashah or
the Talmud or any complicated Habitude, as ratios were once called, of dancing Integers. We
are simply talking Her Majesty of The Verse.
The exegete.
Nota Bene:
1. The exegete would like to extend this appeal to arrange for a formal coronation of the
verse John 1:1 inviting the most respected dignitaries in the field of Letters;Twenty-four
in Greek, twenty-six in English, and twice as many in Latin. To invite the Hebrew Letter
of Twenty-Two, for a Johannine coronation, would cause much whispers and murmurs
amongst other invitees, as it did cause once when the exegete was amidst a fellowship
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2. The exegete would like to dedicate this epistle, on behalf of All Men of Letters, to that
One Man of Letters, who acts as a true representative (true blue, as practising Latter-day
Saints call it; them that grew up in the religion and knows its various shapes and
seasons, and all manner of her vicissitudes, like their own skin. Proselyte and be
condescending: Is that what they want? Like how the Jew once looked down upon the
Proselyte? He still does. "We are happy that you are baptized. Now, what do you know
about us? Why are you here in the first place? Pronounce "S-H-I-B-B-O-L-E-T-H" for
us." - what kind of a practice is this? OR, the very OR, did the Expert Mason of the Church
listen to the Psalmist and reject the stone?) of us gentlemen who revere literature, the
one and ever only, The Reverend, Doctor. Dryasdust, Fellow of the Society of
Antiquaries, and hitherto unknown, and made known for the Very First Time, a graduate
of Salomon's House, and a Citizen of Bensalem. The exegete would also like to make a
request to transfer the Exclusive Felicities, once bestowed upon, the Bachelor of
Divinity, Late Fellow of Christ's College, Mr. Mede^^, to Dr. Dryasdust: "That Reverend,
Ludicious and Learned Divine". Such a fellowship, as the Society of Antiquaries, in
modern times, can only be equated, and duly compared, like equating an antique coin to
a shining Bullion, to the Very Prestigious Sterling Fellowship, the Fellowship of Arches,
Bryce, Canyon, Capitol and Zion; the last of which is part of the Article, Gentlemen. It IS
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4. "Polite Warning", the Puissance says! What the State warns you is not the Law, Ladies
and Gentlemen, rather, the Imputation, or the lack of Knowledge thereof. "Polite
Warning" is to let you know that Miscognizance is not tolerated. The Puissance says,
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5. Anyways, John, as Johannine Dr. Dryasdust is affectionately called among his peers, will
no doubt accept this dedicatory with much expected graciousness out of him .
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"Quo ditus byne aut herbae, aut simile quid corpori liquoris infunditur, eo magis crassescere
turbidumque existere solet. Decoctio autem quo longior, eo plus defoecando valet. Atque in aperto ratio
est, quae dictat, plus crassi corporis liquori admisceri, quo infusio longius protrahitur. Decoctio autem a
tempore longiore habet, ut expurget supersiciem, aut foeculenta ad fundum dejiciat. quare exactissima
clarificationis ratio est, primo infundere, deinde infusum decoquere, ut in cerevisia sieri solet, cui ante
inditur brasium, quod post cum lupulo decoquitur. Hoc ad separationem pertinet."
RAVI S. VAIDYANATHAN
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MATHEMATICAL INDUCTION
Inductive reasoning is oftentimes confused with mathematical
induction. Below is a problem of iterated functions, which when
performed more than twice, which happens to be the case here, can
produce such beautiful outcomes as Mandelbrot's sets. This problem can
be solved using mathematical induction, and otherwise. Mathematical
Induction is all about formalism. As formal as it gets. Formalism, in
addition to requiring a certain standing within the field, is very hard.
But, they sustain. For things worthy people put efforts to formalize
them because such formalization stand for hundreds of years. It is not
permanent, but is not ephemeral either. The inherent hope is that there
will come someone in the next hundred years or two to take it up and
sustain it for two hundred more years.
After solving it, using mathematical induction, think about how it differs
from the "methods" adopted in inductive reasoning. Which "methods" was
* Reuben Hedlock and Hyrum Smith are two unusual, modern names that
occur in the canonized scriptures. Both of them are part of the Pearl of
Great Price. While Re'uven occurs in the Torah, Hedlock does not. What
more is interesting, the name, Reuben Hedlock, is part of a facsimile;
still technically canonized. This goes more than being a Fact because
both the names can be claimed as "taken from the Scripture."
^`These are not music bands.
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RAVI S. VAIDYANATHAN
DATED THE SECOND OF OCTOBER, TWENTY TWENTY-ONE, ANNO DOMINI NOSTRI JESU CHRISTI.