homer nods?

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

On Tue, 19 Dec 1995 grip at netcom.com wrote:
> It's the same sort of reasoning that precludes Santa Claus from viewing a 
> full moon from his North Pole toy shop during the long winter night. 

What grip says frightens and delights me at the same time. You see:
if one writes a letter or post card to Santa Claus, the official postal 
system will carry it to the Finnish Lapland, no matter where in Tellus 
one sends it from. To be precise, to the Arctic Circle Center that is 
situated a few kilometers north of Rovaniemi, the capital of Finnish 
Lapland. There is the Santa Claus' Cabin, a yackily commercial and
pompous thing, where Santa and his auxiliaries have been yoked to serve 
Their icy purposes.

But...could it really be that Santa has only sent a proxy to Lapland,
and keeps his real toy shop at the North Pole? However, in that case he 
(she? when you listen to Phil Spector's Christmas album, you find
yourself dreaming of a world where Santa was a woman, & non-white...)
would have to use some -- sounds crazy, I know -- *alternative* postal 
system, eh?

Heikki