Friday, June 16, 2023
Where Fortunes are Made and People are Lost
You will received a package. What’s inside offers a small clue to a Non-Fiction history book that reads like a novel. Perhaps this book will force our minds to Dig Deep to uncover an Element of human nature that lies buried under our feet and speaks of unspeakable acts. I trust the MOP will have the METAL to handle this read.
There is an irony in this scenario. While this metal is an essential element for health and a minute component in vitamin B12 it is also potentially lethal leading to anemia. On its own this metal presents a danger; yet as a by-product it is a vital component in our commercial and social lives. Everyones life would be altered dramatically but for this buried treasure. In fact our future depends on it. Just ask Elon!
So, we will toast to our health at our Meeting which will only heighten our sense of the insidious terror and greed that has played out in this AFRICAN country for over a century and continues to this day in nationalistic scrambles to acquire CO.
Our History book starts at the beginning with a King of a small European country at the turn of the 20th century. A small country popularized today by a unique style ale and serving as headquarters for NATO and the EU. We will become enlightened as the novel traces back the origins of unbelievable terror, greed, and heroism that continue to play out by GHOST of this colonized country.
I trust you will unearth the clues to this three word 1998 book so we can set sail to a forgotten time in a disregarded country. Maybe we will become aware of lingering Ghosts portraying different kings of the day?
In the interim let’s try to plan a meeting Friday / Saturday July 14/15th or July 21/22 or August 11/12?
Realize this will be a road trip for Gary.
Advise me what day(s) you are available.
Enjoy.
I remain Pompous…as ever
Other Business: Our new members, Logan and Gary, need newly minted MOP names. Guys, be prepared to declare your alias at the next meeting.
Master Lieb Schmear aka Evan
Lord Lloyd de Papel aka Warren
Count Von Pluma aka Colin
Readie McPageturner aka Tyson
Pompous de la Pundit aka Bob
Den Store Rode aka James
Meatball aka Danny Love aka Danny Boy
Lt. Er Airy aka Kevin
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We met at the Farmhouse Saturday evening, August 26th, 2023, at 6PM to discuss the novel King Leopold’s Ghost. Everyone was in attendance. Pompous prepared a Lavendar-Lemon Gin & Tonic to pair with the late summer but mild afternoon temperature. We socialized around the kitchen counter catching up on lost time since our last meeting. A few enjoyed a second cocktail before dinner. The parchment takes place in the African country of the Congo. With the “unforgiving” plight of the starving Africans fresh in our minds we feasted on African Goat Stew over rice, blocks of goat cheese dressed with EVOO, garlic, and fresh parsley, corn muffins, and toasted bread.
Shortly a fire was prepared, cigars drawn, libations poured, Buddha rubbed, MOP Creed read, an alligator burned, and the 59th meeting of the MOP commenced.
As anticipated this novel brought our souls to our knees. While there was much debate searching for answers to the horrible atrocities inflected on the indigenous Africans of the Congo we could only appease our egos. For it seems an enemy lies within us all that is difficult to keep at bay.
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