wonderful pages of the Westerners

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Cochonfucius


Cochonfucius respectfully asked the priest from Eastern Hill about the marvelous accomplishments of the Westerners.

The priest said: I just made up a list of examples. There is one for each of the signs in their curious writing, of which there are only twenty-six. Please listen:


Acro      Westerners think in acronyms,


Buz      drown in booze


Chains      and resent the heavy Chains of Freedom.


Drak      They cross the Ocean in drakkars,


Euro      they learn europanto,


Fouc      and swear by Michel Foucault.


Graf      Instead of concepts, they have graffiti,


Hai      they import songs from Haïti.


IbnA      They dream of the Unknowable with Ibn al-Arabî.


Jes      They play with an artificial jester,


Kant      or go kantian.


Lex      When they learn weird lexemes,


Mega      they teach them to Megahal.


Nor      Basking in Northern Light,


Ob      they find it oblique.


Ps      If they hear psalms,


mQ      they mis- quote them.


Rob      They get up robotically


Sem      and lie down semiotically.


Thom      As clever as Thomson and Thompson,


Ur      they thrive on urinol.


Vn      They shoot at platypuses in vain.


Wi      They are taught by Wilks,


wX      but they learn from weXler.


Yn      They ignore Yang and Yin,


Zon      so they cannot keep from Zoning."





"I am comforted by that, said the Master. Their way of life is not likely to propagate."