Precarious Imprecations

Cochonfucius heard a voice in a garden. He went there and saw a hermit, and asked him what made him yell.

The hermit explained he was trying to generate the best precarious imprecation. He gave it another try.

Yake Lakang gave an interpretation, according to which the hermit was under the charm of some that he replaced, at the beginning of his speech, by some but kept on his

As we poor Earthlings know, a failed imprecation is a successful fantasm, in spite of one-armed pianists, acrolects, acrostics, anacoluthia, anagrams, drummers, anapests, toxic mushrooms, drunk monarchs, defective gears, iconoclasts, boring diaries, uninspiring cantors, cider that tastes like petrol, wild rumors, palaces that are supposed to be romantic, purists, nincompoops, bivalvia, pyramids without mummies, the wisdom of folktales, hand-written notes on Bibles in hotel rooms, or on the Book of Mormon, bad weather and polluted beaches, noisy printers, pain and pleasure, cigarette holes in canvas, dust storms, courting, weapons, worms in cherries, tasteless lanterns, elevator music, ectoplasms, dogmata, wasteful bees, perverse axioms, reversibility, backness, satellites, pepper in chocolate, landlubbers, undefined kernels, ghosts from Zululand, ballistic crabs, purple berries, weird words, gambling, bamboo cathedrals, red herrings, misunderstandings, Scottish ballads, smoke in smithies, broken dams, broken jars, insane Romans, Eridanian playing cards, sarsaparilla in omelettes, useless utensils, radioactive atoms, salt marshes, tangled networks, carpet-sellers, taboos, iambs, skyscrapers, flags, ambigrams, belfries, colocynths, burying rituals, illusions, embassies, non-zero-sum games, calligraphy, old-fashioned gloves, high currents, pratitya-samutpada, collective nouns, mis-spun tales and curses from Egyptian mummies, or from ascetic Indians.

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