Monday, April 28, 2008

The Lombardia Livery Company

‘I am compelled to tell you that I am obsessed with jet propulsion’ said Dejesus to the Witness. ‘Were it not for the vroom vroom and the kittle kittle I dare say I’d have no interest in it whatsoever, not an iota’s worth’. The Witness, having witness more than enough, stepped to the side and scuttled down the sideways, a coxcomb of pamphlets fluttering in his wake. ‘That man is crazy, no company for a grand pamphleteer such as I’. He threw a bundle of tightly bound pamphlets into each and every doorway he passed, saying as he did ‘in excelsior glorious, the merchant of pheasants is nearby nearing’ a gray grouse sky, atwitter of wrens and warblers filling the air with a harping cacophony.

The Witness bought his pamphlets in bulk from the Brighton Pamphlet and Placard Company in East Sussex. The pamphlets were printed in Missouri by the Saint Thomas Bros. Printing and Lithography Company. And finally, the printed and ready pamphlets were bound and shipped by the Puerto Cabello Binding and Cartage Servicios in Carabobo Venezuela. The Witness kept the printed, readied, bound and shipped pamphlets in an abandoned silo in Ashville Alabama, where they stayed until being shipped to the Pamphleteer Bros. in Vigevano Italy, where the finished product was collated, rebound and sent back to Ashville Alabama by the Lombardia Livery Company. The Witness sent a sheaf of pamphlets to the Pune Sisters Nunnery in Maharashtra as a sign of good will and ecumenical solidarity.

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