Another reason to have tomatoes as a favourite fruit
of the Lunars:
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BBC TV News recently ran a story about an Asian family
in Bradford, West Yorkshire, whose house has become
a site of pilgrimage for Britain's Muslim community since
a daughter of the family cut open a tomato to reveal the
word "Allah" in Arabic clearly visible in the swirls of flesh
within.
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There has to be a scenario in this - the local Lunar garrison
are growing tomatoes in the grounds of their fort, a few go
"over the pallisade" to the local Sartarite innkeeper and lo
and behold when one is cut the words "Victory to the Red
Mother who masters demons and drives her enemies
before her like chaff before the wind"(1) are revealed within.
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Before long a quiet backwater area of Sartar is over-run by
fanatical Lunar pilgrims laying plans for a new Temple of
the Reaching Moon!(2)
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Actually, it's just occured to me that, if you cut a tomato in
half along the right axis, you get something that looks like
a moon rune.
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Notes:
(1) Written New Pelorian is a very concise language.
(2) These same fanatics will insist on the local garrison
marching barefoot as the recently-delivered consignment
of marching sandals bears a locally-applied inscribed
decoration which looks suspiciously like the verse "The
name of the Red Goddess be emblazened across the
heavens by the souls of the righteous"(3) which must not
be soiled by contact with the rude earth.
(3) See note (1) above.
Richard Crawley
richardc_at_sypte.co.uk (work)
richstella_at_aol.com (home)
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