baby, what's in that satchel?

the readings for my essay abstract have commenced, two days late. but still, they've commenced. i started easy, with some modern books (by modern i mean post 1960). But now, i'm onto the travel journals, beginning with Cathay and the Way Thither, which chart the travels of Friar Odoric the Bohemian, of Friuli, in the province of Saint Anthony. what a mouthful. It's been edited by Sir Henry Yule, and in the introduction is a letter to his friend, Roderick.

let us all pause and giggle and then...

WEWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE WODEWICK !!