You might recall that on Wednesday I asked about what the stories we Green Wizards tell ourselves:
I hadn’t considered “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” in conjunction with the conversations we charcoal burners have about the strange origins of the Green Wizards’ Benevolent and Protective Association when we get together with the unicorns to play cards on first and fourth Saturdays…
Perhaps the next thing we should discuss is what our stories about a poor Ruinman who walked away and became the first Green Wizard tell us about ourselves and our world…?
Please advise.
Your response was, “I recommend discussing it with the unicorns!”
So, I did. On Saturday night, I brought the stories up with the usual card not-so-sharps. In Ohio, unicorns are the predatory type – they look like very large, long-snouted mountain lions, (they drink from human cups with reed straws) with long, fluffy, semi-prehensile tails, and iridescent polar bear-like fur. (A tweenaged girl is about their weight limit for a rider, thus THAT legend.) The toes of the unicorns’ forepaws are quite dexterous, and their dew claws are extensible for use as a thumb, so they can shuffle and hold cards. They also like to ante up by tiddlywinking our wooden poker chips with their retractable claws. Any that land in the beer belong to the mug holder.
The unicorns tell me that the stories about the GWB&PA are about rejecting the losses caused by the end of carbon and healing by building a new organization based on the forms tossed aside over the last five centuries. Anti-nostalgia leading to anti-hauntology, if you will.
Then I asked my staves what our stories about a poor Ruinman who walked away and became the first Green Wizard tell us about ourselves and the world.
Ngetal, reversed. A need to heal.
Walking home, I saw a rabbit, so I meditated on the rabbit or hare. When I asked my staves what to notice about this.
Ngetal, upright. “Beginning of heroic deeds, that is, healing.”
Then I picked up “Tlön.” It was open to the last page, and a line jumped out at men. “A scattered dynasty of solitary men has changed the face of the world.”
I think we might be on the right path for the right reasons… but… would you and the commentariat grant me the traditional favor of the fraternity of slide rule users and check my work.
Rhydlyd

Thank you. I will follow the rabbit.