PERSIA. / In this empire of Asia, accounts are kept in tomans, each toman consisting of 1000 dinars-bisti, each of which is 12 dinars. The toman is divided into 50 abasis, 100 mamudis, 20 zaejiers, 1000 dinars-bisti, 2000 kabesquis, or 10000 dinar*. ... Silver monies are generally reckoned by bags of 50 tomans, or 2500 abasis, 100 mamudis of Avesa, or Avisa

Long-haired, austere eyebrows turned to me.

First Poets, all the World agrees, Write half to profit, half to please Matter and figure They produce; For Garnish This, and That for Use;

Suitably daunted by ultracrepidarian angst, I record here some tentative readings in rhetoric's expanded domain and venture a few preliminary observations on their relation to the electronic word.