I am FREAKING OUT . I just finished my Recitations and was trying to decide a topic that was suitable for today's Effort ... I sat in "Chairy-Chair" at Mull . Some days there are lags of Time where my Mind has "stalled" but in a GOOD way . Today, out of nowhere, a thought arrived that surprised me = I thought that if I had Poor Richard's Almanac I could quote from it to express American Wisdom, that of my Guy Benjamin Franklin . "Just like the Gypsy Queen" my Mind began to "roam". Where the fuck was I gonna get hold of Poor Richard and his Words of Wisdom ? I wandered and wondered ...................... .
I recalled I had procured {{GOD I LOVE THAT WORD}} a VOLUME simply titled FRANKLIN Writings . I removed it from the shelf and `took a look` . The Book is a True VOLUME, it contains 1,470 pages of Text and 135 pages of Notes, the Index and a detailed Chronology ,,, but did it contain the complete "Almanac" ? I sifted the pages -got to near the end and I saw a page header , "Poor Richard" , I splayed the book and found a "title page" -- there it was "POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC" 1733 - 1758 !!!! Holy Kite Flying Cow !!!!!!!!!!!!!! I inwardly EXALTED !!!!!!!!!!!!
I perused a few pages and DISCOVERED that I write "just like" Ben . My use of CAPITAL LETTERS, I know to be "against the grain" of Punctuation & Grammar, is to enhance and focus my Gentle Readers attention to specific words or wordings . I determined long ago that I would make my pages "look like" pages from 16th and 17th scripts, what with all that flowery calligraphy and CAPITAL LETTERS that seem "out of place" and even incongruent . I just loved "the look" . Now guess who indiscriminately uses CAPITAL LETTERS as a "Style Preference". Yup ---> Ben .
I'm fucking BEN FRANKLIN Can you "dig it" ???
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