<my favorite Book of Lies chapter: Onion Peelings>

Mine is #91, The Heikle. And there is a story on this one also.

Once I taught a course on the Book of Lies at my Lodge. I was teaching one night on Chapter 13. At the break, I left the room for a minute and suddenly heard a silent mental voice in the back of my head say, "Teach them about Chapter 91."

So, I thought, "Chapter 91? But I'm on Chapter 13 tonight and there is no connection to 91 at all."

"Teach it anyway," the voice replied.

I thought about it. "No, I'm not going to do that unless you can show me some connection between Chapters 13 and 91," I said, stubbornly.

This brought no response, except possibly a somewhat brooding silence.

When I got back to the class and the dry erase board, I had barely gotten started before one of the students asked, "Bob, what does that expression on the right hand page mean? the squiggle (1--13)?"

So, I said, "The squiggle is the Greek letter sigma and the 1--13 means that you're supposed to add the numbers one through thirteen. Here, let me show you. (Adding numbers on board) 13 + 12 = 25, +11 = 36. . .+ 4 = 85, + 3 = 88, + 2= 90, + 1=. . . . . . .Oh, shit. . . .I give up. Class please turn to Chapter 91."

HGA has a truly inspired sense of humor, no?

With love,

Bob, aka Adastra,
The Wizzard of Jacksonville