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Tue Feb 26 15:55:48 CST 2008

This 'Asiatic Beerbohm Tree" reminds me of a vision like an Asiatic Wizard of OZ......
  but, more accurately, did not Nostradamus "project' such a pan-asiatic prophet/messianic/world leader figure?.............

Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:

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poised between the worlds Our beloved theme of the plurality of worlds.

stands a visitor 
 a famous touring actor Who?

each, imprisoned in his own fear, is praying that it all be only theater
Cf. The Evacuation still proceeds, but its all theatre.

by the time his name is revealed Yes, another beloved topic of ours, Revelation or the Apocalypse. 

arrack-and-soda

arrack - strong spirits distilled chiefly in Asia from fermented fruits, grains, or sugarcane. In the 19th cent., Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) became quite noted for palm toddy arrack and in modern times, Indonesia makes the best arrack. Other names for arrack are rack, raki, and arak.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-arrack.html

the choiring clepsydras Beautiful, itsnt it?

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a lucifer flared With all the connotations of course.

to take flannel unknown idiom.

P&O steamer Pacific and Orient

his assumed name stenciled onto it Another nod to V.

Nowadays, of course, it might as well all be on a Cooks tour Our beloved theme of tourists and Baedeckerland.

By the Edwardian standards 

The Edwardian period or Edwardian era in the United Kingdom is the period covering the reign of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910.
The death of Queen Victoria, Empress of India in January 1901 and the succession of her son, Edward, marked the start of a new century and the end of the Victorian period. While Victoria had shunned society, Edward was the leader of a fashionable elite which set a style influenced by the art and fashions of continental Europeperhaps because of the King's fondness for travel. The era was marked by significant shifts in politics as sections of society which had been largely excluded from wielding power in the past, such as common labourers and women, became increasingly politicised.[1]
The period is often extended beyond Edward's death in 1910 to include the years up to the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, the start of World War I in 1914, or even the end of the war in 1918. The war sealed the end of the period as the Edwardian way of life, with its inherent imbalance of wealth and power, became increasingly anachronistic in the eyes of a population suffering in the face of war, and exposed to mass propaganda decrying the injustice of class division.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwardian

The Mood of Edwardian High Society

It could be said that Edwardian Britain belonged to another age, almost another world. The truth is that time plays havoc with the mind's perception of things past. If our view of the Edwardian age is a distorted one, in which we believe that life was one festive round of parties, splendid banquets and extravagant clothes, then it may be that archive film of the rich along with television serials such as 'Edward VII', 'The Forsyte Saga', Upstairs Downstairs and 'Lillie' have played an important part in reinforcing the myth of 'the golden age'. 
On the other hand, these serials have awakened a new interest in the era. An abundance of factual books recounting the social history of the Edwardian Era exist and they are revealing and always fascinating. 

http://www.fashion-era.com/the_mood_of_edwardian_society.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/homes/design/period_edwardian.shtml

to establish relations with the Tungus living east of the Yenisei

TUNGUSES, a widespread Asiatic people, forming a main branch of the Mongol division of the Mongol-Tatar family. They are the Tung-hu of the Chinese, probably a corrupt form of tonki or donki, that is, "men" or "people." The Russian form Tungus, wrongly supposed to mean "lake people," appears to occur first in the Dutch writer Massa (1612); but the race has been known to the Russians ever since they reached the Yenisei. The Tungus domain, covering many hundred thousand square miles in central and east Siberia and in the Amur basin, stretches from the Yenisei eastwards to the Pacific, where it occupies most of the seaboard between Korea and Kamchatka.
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Tunguses

What could be the ulteriour motives of establishing these relations?

as the bergut flies

Should be berkut. The Russian name for a golden eagle.
The Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is one of the best known birds of prey in the Northern Hemisphere. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. Once widespread across the Holarctic, it has disappeared from many of the more heavily populated areas. It has a wingspan averaging over 2 m (7 ft) and up to 1m (3 ft) in body length.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Eagle

But also:

The S-25 Berkut (Russian: Ñ-25 «Áåðêóò»; "Berkut" means golden eagle in English) is a surface-to-air guided missile, the first operational SAM in the Soviet Union.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-25_Berkut

The Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut (Russian: Ñó-47 Áåðêóò - Golden Eagle), also designated S-32 and S-37 during initial development, is an experimental supersonic jet fighter developed by Sukhoi Aviation Corporation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su-47

The Berkut 360 is tandem-seating two-seat homebuilt canard aircraft built primarily of carbon fiber and fiberglass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkut_aircraft

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