to alleviate misunderstandings ------- Thursday 27 January

The new title of this blog, "one wiseman and ten thousand idiots," is not as conceited as some might assume. Mostly I just liked the rhythm of the saying--- go ahead, roll it around in your mouth. Sing it in your head: "one wiseman and ten thousand idiots". It's nice; admit it. And it follows in the path of some of my earlier titles, such as "don't take your ordo to another monastery" and "I'm a pasha, you're a pasha". If anyone is determined to assume that I had any self-descriptive motivation for using this phrase, one should consider the idea that perhaps they're all, one wiseman and ten thousand idiots, in my head.