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| The Code of Conduct shall also be strictly enforced. As the Ceremony is a liminal event taking place outside the everyday world of customary roles, mores, and social conventions, Non-Normal conduct shall be adhered to throughout. The Butler will continuously monitor and assess the behaviour of each visitor for the duration of the evening. Any person found evincing "normal" behaviour at any time will be requested immediately to bring their conduct in line with the Ceremony. A second infringement will incur penalties, such as exclusion from the Frivolities. Those found infringing a third time will be summarily locked in the storeroom for the remainder of the evening. (As a gesture of exceptional benevolence, Armoracio Bud Minuez has decreed that persons locked in the storeroom may be permitted to redeem their misconduct by washing up after the event, upon suitable and sufficient demonstration of contrition.) | The Code of Conduct shall also be strictly enforced. As the Ceremony is a liminal event taking place outside the everyday world of customary roles, mores, and social conventions, Non-Normal conduct shall be adhered to throughout. The Butler will continuously monitor and assess the behaviour of each visitor for the duration of the evening. Any person found evincing "normal" behaviour at any time will be requested immediately to bring their conduct in line with the Ceremony. A second infringement will incur penalties, such as exclusion from the Frivolities. Those found infringing a third time will be summarily locked in the storeroom for the remainder of the evening. (As a gesture of exceptional benevolence, Armoracio Bud Minuez has decreed that persons locked in the storeroom may be permitted to redeem their misconduct by washing up after the event, upon suitable and sufficient demonstration of contrition.) |
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| | === The Miscellanies === |
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| | * Yule Herbs -- ash, bay, chamomile, frankincense, hazel, holly, juniper, milk thistle, mistletoe, oak, pine, pine cones, rosemary, sage, sandalwood, walnuts |
| | * Yule Incense -- bayberry, pine, cedar, rosemary, juniper |
| | * Yule Colors -- red, green, white, silver, gold |
| | * Yule Decorations -- yule log (oak or pine), mistletoe, wreaths, strings of dried flowers and cinnamon sticks, apples, oranges, yule tree, holly, lights, mistletoe, candles, pine branches |
| | * Yule Foods -- nuts, apples, oranges, caraway rolls, mulled wine, roast turkey, pears, pork, Wassail, eggnog, bread, cookies |
| | * Yule Sacred Gemstones -- cat's eye and ruby |
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| === Soundtrack: === | === Soundtrack: === |
| * Several white candles | * Several white candles |
| * Two crimson candles | * Two crimson candles |
| * Incense of cedar and thyme | * Incense |
| * Copious dry ice | * Copious dry ice |
| * Censers | * Censers |
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| <blockquote>The difference between ‘rituals’ and ‘feasts’ is this: by the one a particular form of energy is generated, while there is a general discharge of one’s superfluous force in the other. Yet a feast implies periodical nourishment.</blockquote> | <blockquote>The difference between ‘rituals’ and ‘feasts’ is this: by the one a particular form of energy is generated, while there is a general discharge of one’s superfluous force in the other. Yet a feast implies periodical nourishment.</blockquote> |
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| | * The Feastings. (I do not know when these shall take place.) |
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| - Fumigation | - Fumigation |
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| == Renewal and Metempsychosis. Sudden Transmogrification. Wild Rumpus Starts == | == Renewal and Metempsychosis. Sudden Transmogrification. Wild Rumpus Starts. == |
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| The intensity of the previous Observance has conveyed Celebrants through a metempsychosis of renewal and transmogrification, and the energy released in this renewal has built up an irresistible urge to dance. Celebrants are now required to party, for such indicators as Saturnalia and Bacchanalia prevail, and Solvent Spirits are to be consumed in proper quantities. | The intensity of the previous Observance has conveyed Celebrants through a metempsychosis of renewal and transmogrification, and the energy released in this renewal has built up an irresistible urge to dance. Celebrants are now required to party, for such indicators as Saturnalia and Bacchanalia prevail, and Solvent Spirits are to be consumed in proper quantities. |
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| | **TIME TO PARTY** |
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| | <html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryqueensland/5141828590/" title="Garden tea party for three ladies from the Joyce family by State Library of Queensland, Australia, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1172/5141828590_01dfe5da59_z.jpg" width="640" height="413" alt="Garden tea party for three ladies from the Joyce family"></html> |
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