Monday, February 26, 2007

whass the context yo pent-tietronic varlet y'all


ALSO,
varlet 1. A man or lad acting as an attendant or servant; a menial, a groom. Now arch.

b. spec. An attendant on a knight or other person of military importance. Now only Hist.

c. varlet of the chamber, = VALET-DE-CHAMBRE. Obs.

d. = SERGEANT n. 8. Obs.

2. A person of a low, mean, or knavish disposition; a knave, rogue, rascal.
In later use freq. without serious implication of bad qualities.

b. Employed as an abusive form of address.


c. In the phr. to play the..varlet. Obs.

d. transf. (See quot.) Obs.

3. The knave in cards. Obs. [So F. valet.]
4. attrib. as varlet heretic, page, rebel.

AND MOIST CONTWEXTYOUALLY!
ΒΆ5. App. used for WARLOCK.
wiht quotations....
1703 BRAND New Desc. Ork. & Zetland viii. 110 There is a House called Kebister, where a Varlet or Wizard lived.
Hence varletess, a female varlet.

1748 RICHARDSON Clarissa I. xxxi. 196 It was more Pride than Love..that put me upon making such a confounded rout about losing this noble varletess. Ibid. VI. 96 Eight o'clock at Mid-summer, and these lazy varletesses (in full health) not come down yet to breakfast!

From: chrisman@RCN.COM
Subject: on not publishing the 'itinerant' poets of guantanamo bay
Date: February 26, 2007 11:53:34 AM PST
To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU

the pentagon arguing that poetry 'presents a special risk' to national security because of its 'content and format'.

Monday, February 19, 2007

Encouragement for the faint of heart



A star is born in every soul awakened
(in two pilasters)













and






In you will find the power of all creation
(in but a single string)