The Wrath of Trystero

[Dave Monroe]

"'Messer, you have witnessed the wrath of Trystero. 
Know that we are not without mercy.  Tell your king
and parliament what we have done.  Tell them that we
prevail.  That neither tempest nor strife, nor fierce
beasts, nor the loneliness of the desert, nor yet the
illegitimate usurpers of our rightful estate, can
deter our couriers.'" (Lot 49, Ch. 6, p. 158)


"Contrary to popular belief, the United States Postal
Service has no official motto.  However, a number of
postal buildings contain inscriptions, the most
familiar of which appear on postal buildings in New
York City and Washington, D.C. 

"General Post Office, New York City, 8th Avenue and
33rd Street 

"'Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night
stays these couriers from the swift completion of
their appointed rounds.' 

"This inscription was supplied by William Mitchell
Kendall of the firm of McKim, Mead & White, the
architects who designed the New York General Post
Office.  Kendall said the sentence appears in the
works of Herodotus and describes the expedition of the
Greeks against the Persians under Cyrus, about 500
B.C. The Persians operated a system of mounted postal
couriers, and the sentence describes the fidelity with
which their work was done.  Professor George H. Palmer
of Harvard University supplied the translation, which
he considered the most poetical of about seven
translations from the Greek."

http://www.usps.gov/history/his8.htm#INSCIPT

http://www.usps.gov/history/his1.htm


Not to be confused with the Green Lantern oath ...

http://www.glcorps.org/oath3.gif

http://www.glcorps.org/oath1.gif

http://www.glcorps.org/oa-oath.html

In any of its incarnations (incantations?) ...

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