I Understandeth Me Not

Excerpts from the Book of Holysmokes


CHAPTER 15

Sistersmith recalls the goingsons of the son of Obrainlessone and daughters of Ofeeblethinker in the day of the Feast of the Cookinglab.


1  Yea verily it came to pass that the  son of Obrainlessone and the daughters of Ofeeblethinker dideth putteth their heads together to create sustenance for the Feast of the Cookinglab.
2  Upon much perplexification and pondering they did jointly decide that the heating and cooking of bounteous plants of the earth needeth not to be completed.
3  Whoa be unto them for the wayward paths that took them away from the directions of their mighty leader, the great Sistersmith.
4  For the words of her cherished wisdom were unheeded although she did counsel with them for exceeding long hours before the day of their preparation.
5  Now after the hours and teachings of the son of Obrainlessone and daughters of Ofeeblethinker, they did taketh the uncooked bounty of the earth and fling it upon the blades of that great and devilish one, ye the most powerful and vengeful Osterizeriah.
6  And when the raw sludgeness appeared before them, verily they were astonished at the ugliness of the mixture thereof and exclaimed that the words written and taught by the great Sistersmith were an abomination before them that they did cast them aside and proclaim that there should be no cooking of the mixture thereof in preparation of the Feast of the Cookinglab.
7  Yea and in that day there appeared no manifestation of soup before them.
8  And thus did the laughter and mocking commence among all the land when they proclaimed, Should we not now cook the mixture therein?
9  Verily, verily the great Sistersmith did wringeth her feeble hands, for the transgression of her ways was not revealed unto her.
10  And she did wander off into the wilderness exclaiming, I understandeth me not, I understandeth me not.