Twelfth Night (or 'What You Will')
APPENDIX C Happy New Year, Faithful Friends in Fungus! I suppose in any appendix of a work of this, erm, character a basic introduction to Robert Graves' Tree Calendar is in order: We begin (and are now in) the month of the Birch, Beth (interestingly, the 2nd letter of Hebrew and other Semitic scripts/alphabets/syllabaries earlier (not according to Graves) than Minoan - and meaning house in Hebrew. What trees did the Phoenicians fell to build their houses with? ) This month of inception and new beginnings, fertility and frozen surfaces begins on 12/24, Christmas Eve, Cosima Wagner's birthday for any philosopher who still gives a damn! and concludes on January 20th, the day America convenes annually to replace Tweedle Dee with Tweedle Dumber. Now---we are on the Eve of the Epiphany of Christ, the Divine Child Harpocrates who was Reborn on Christmas Day (or the 23rd in Graves' make-believe) seen by the Three Magi who followed the Star to Bethlehem ( house ...