Subject:Cigars
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Entry 2915
Get you a John Ruskin cigar.
(A John Ruskin cigar.)
Cigar, and put it in a glass. Get a lump of ice and put it in a tub. And when you gon'a go before the judge, you have glasses round in there and have a candle, nine candles, and let somebody - when you going down to the court - light those candles and have that glass setting in the center with them two John Ruskin cigar in it, and light them and let them be smoking. And have them candles burning. The judge will discharge you. (And you get a cake of ice - here's your cake of ice - and you put this glass on top of the ice with the two cigars in it?) Set it on top of the ice with the two cigars in it and all the glasses around, but you got to buy new glasses what ain't been used.
(And how many glasses do you use around that cake of ice?)
Nine.
(And what color candles do you put in those nine glasses?)
White. (Oh, white. I see. And these candles and the cigars are burning at the same time?)[See comment.] Burning while your case is going on - while you go into court.
(But they must be John Ruskin cigars?)
John Ruskin cigars.
(I see.)
[An ordinary water glass is put in the center of the cake of ice and into it are set two John Ruskin cigars. Circled about this glass with cigars stand nine white candles in glasses. The candles are lighted and apparently the cigars also; but the latter will not "be smoking." On this cake-of-ice altar, a cigar- smoking judge is confined by the magic circle of pure white candles - See Magic Circle, p.123, and the circular candle-rites of Doctor Yousee's interview. The glass with cigars in the center of four icy corners also completes a magic quin- cunx (p.710), giving us an unusual quincuncial altar.]