>And then my friend Chris Gidlow wrote the "Seleric Verses" (cf.
>Tales #16 for the first four of these), in which Irrippi Ontor
>("The Scholar") appears as a crabbed old astrologer with weird
>and delusional theories about comets, cycles, and young girls
>with red hair.
I must concur that the theories are shown as weird. I cannot concur that
they are delusional, given the outcome. If it works....