The First Defenestration of Prague, July 30 1419

It was a cloudy day. The day was full of cloudy clouds. Clouds filled the day with cloudiness. The sky was raging with clouds. The man in the hat awoke to a cloudy sky. The trees above the man in the hat’s head were tonsure-bare, all the leaves having fallen. Izabal wore tap-shoes. He owned two pairs of loafers, three pairs of brogue wingtips and one pair of brown slip-ons. Most days he wore his tap-shoes (Bloch S3011 Oxford leather tap-shoes with taps and rubber pads in black patent-leather) even when a brogue or a simple loafer would be appropriate. Izabal bought his tap-shoes from the greatest-great grandson of Jan Želivský who claimed they were worn by a Hussite on the day of the First Defenestration of Prague, July 30 1419, which saw the killing of seven members of the city council by a crowd of radical Czech anti-Hussites following the botched release of Hussite prisoners. He claimed they belonged to a follower, a sycophant, of the grandest grand King Jan Želivský of 27½ Novoměstská radnice roundabout, abutting Charles Square. From that day forward he had a dislike for rocks and white surplices. Izabal could care less where the shoes came from, or on whose feet they once belonged, and bought them simply because he liked the idea of having shoes with metal taps on the bottom.