Thursday, September 11, 2008

The Knights of Valmieras

The Gibbs’ Hard Mustard Co. held a family fun day every July 27th. The general manger and organizer of the annual family fun day, a mister J.S.Q,W. Coop, was arrested for making obscene signs behind the back of Ms. Alba Hussmann, who upon turning to face J.S.Q,W. Coop fell over her handbag dislocating her hip and tearing her coat. He was incarcerated for 5 years less a day, that day to be spent in solitary detention chewing on the consequences of his heathenry.

A confluence of stars glimmered in the nighttime sky. Howard Cauvery, eating a mille faille, lips smacking, said so long to Dejesus, who was leaving the next day for Mt. Vassal. He was to meet with a tinsmith in the smithy of Valmiera Latvia, who had the other whore’s glove, a relic passed down from family to family in the grand tradition of the Knights of Valmieras. The tinsmith’s ancestry, having barter the glove from the Sisters of Hoofdstedelijk Gewest in Brussels, kept it in a cool dry place alongside the year’s harvest, rutabagas, turnips, yellow and brown, kale, duce carrots, fiddleheads, poached from the friar’s tun, yellow and off-yellow potatoes and starchy fat beans, yellow and green.

The Ramat Gan family of Tel Aviv, with whom the tinsmith’s ancestry had a fleeting partnership selling Dutch Pleasantries, claimed to be in possession of the third whore’s glove, suggesting that three was a luckier number than two. The elder Ramat Gan wore a Corbusier flatcar cap with a badger hatband. He found the third whore’s glove under a cypress tree behind the Norwegian Collection Agency and Notaries. A notary by the name of Éclat stake ownership of the perfumed hand garment, the glove being found on their property. After wrangling and cajoling the glove from the elder Ramat Gan, who he referred to as ‘the whoring thief’, he permitted the Ramat Gan family to place an opening bid on the glove.

From that point on the glove remained in secrecy, the Norwegian Collection Agency and Notaries and the Ramat Gan family of Tel Aviv being the joint proprietors of the third whore’s glove (the Ramat Gan family signing a promissory note stating that they would pay a princely sum for the glove once the notarization had been competed). The elder Ramat Gan, after conferring with his family, purchased the glove for principesco sum of 44.0829 Reais.

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