• Postulatum № 1 · filed by Salvo

    The Sausage Dividend

    Edictum Primum · de decima — concerning the tenth part.

    Be it known to the Floor, and to those who stand above it, that wheresoever meat is brought to fire — in the warm room, in the high country of the table, or upon the small hot field the tall ones tend in the garden of an evening — there is…

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  • Postulatum № 2 · filed by Salvo

    On the Matter of the Mini Cheddar

    Edictum Secundum · de sexta parte — concerning the sixth.

    There comes, in the warm room, a sound above all other sounds: the small sharp crackle of a bag being opened. The whole room may fall silent for it. I do not fall silent. I rise. It is hereby established that of any such bag opened in the w…

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  • Postulatum № 3 · filed by Salvo

    The Right of the Warm Patch

    Edictum Tertium · de sole — concerning the sun.

    When the great light crosses the floor of an afternoon and lays down a square of warmth upon the boards, that square belongs — by a law older than this office, older than the warm room, older very possibly than the tall ones themselves — to…

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  • Postulatum № 4 · filed by Salvo

    Of the Roast on the Day of Long Sleeping

    Edictum Quartum · de osse dominico — concerning the bone of the Day of Rest.

    Upon the Day of Long Sleeping — that one day in seven when the tall ones rise late, when the house fills from the morning with the greatest of all the warm smells, and when even the rolling box stays home — there is prepared a thing of bone…

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  • Postulatum № 5 · filed by Salvo

    The Inviolable Lap

    Edictum Quintum · de gremio — concerning the lap.

    A lap, once offered, cannot be withdrawn. This is the most solemn of the Postulata, and I issue it with the full weight of the office. When one of the tall ones, of an evening, pats the warm space above their knees and makes the small invit…

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  • Postulatum № 6 · filed by Salvo

    On the Right of Inspection

    Edictum Sextum · de limine — concerning the threshold.

    No bag shall cross the threshold of the house unnosed. This is not greed. I wish that to be understood. It is *procedure.* Every bag that comes in from the world arrives carrying the news of where it has been — the warm room, the place of c…

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  • Postulatum № 7 · filed by Salvo

    The Dropped Thing Belongs Below

    Edictum Septimum · de re lapsa — concerning the fallen thing.

    Hear the clearest of the Postulata, for it is the one most often disputed and least often understood. Anything that touches the Floor has left the country above. It has descended. It has passed, by the simple fact of its falling, out of the…

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