TIDBITS 05/23/04

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The 2500 Hour Oestre Egg

Lest there are thems amongst you wot think Faberg‚ was
the only one to make magnificent bejeweled eggs ... I am
here to tell you otherwise. There is or once was a Parisian
designer by the name of Bernard Maquin who made an egg
that is not to be believed. 'T'was an Easter Egg in fact ...
or an Oestre Egg for those of you who like to delve into
the etymological intricacies of the English language.

Oestre ... a Teutonic goddess of spring's fertility from
whence the word oestrus is also derived. As to the egg
itself that so often symbolizes Easter ... it is an ancient
paradigm of rebirth and renewal that heralded the oncoming of
the vernal equinox. And the Easter Bunny ... well, that rabbit was
probably in origin a hare ... a lunar animal sacred not only
to Oestre ... but to all moon-goddesses.

The name of Bernie's egg is: The Royal Egg. It took Bernard Maquin's
team 2500 hours to create. Below is a paragraph of what might be
mundane to some. Skip it if you're bored.

The egg contains the following:
1061 diamonds for a total weight of 33.51 carats.
486 cabochon sapphires--42.37 carats.
104 cabochon rubies--16.34 carats.
785 square cut sapphires--143.10 carats.
204 square cut rubies--35.46 carats.
139 amethysts, peridots, and citrines--286.74 carats
.... with each stone being specially cut to fit the space in which it
would reside. It's all in 18 karat gold. And its weight is a stunning
1772 grams ... about 4 pounds if my calculations serve.

Before the turn of the century ... the egg was worth something in the
vicinity of $115,000. Personally ... when I look at it ... I think
it's underpriced.

Did I mention that the egg is the universal womb of space-time ... and
that in it resides all of the universe's creative potential ... and
from within it comes the hatching of all life. Yes ... it is true. The
world was hatched from an egg ... much in the same fashion I would
surmise as the chick was hatched from the egg which its mother--the
hen--laid. I say there's a giant hen in the sky somewhere ...
squatting over an empty piece of space ... getting ready to lay yet
another egg which will give birth to yet another world filled with
little mammalian and reptilian creatures ... all beady eyed and
without emotion ... gearing up for their race to nowhere.

Ain't it grand to think we all might have simply come out of the
working end of a cosmic hen. A vision to behold in the recesses of our
imagination ... to bring forth every time one of us little chicks
think we're better than another little chick. Ah well ... philosophy
aside ... may I present this invitation ... cluckety cluck cluck.

For those of you who are new to this thing called Tidbits...may I
direct you to my home page at www.tyler-adam.com where you
will scroll down the left side menu till you get to the area that says
Tidbits Graphics ... and then click on the link that says: Oestre ...
where you'll see an image of the Egg.

And there ya have it.
That's it for this week folks.
Catch you all next week.
Benjamin Mark

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