Act II, Signature V - (1)

When men are once checked in what they consider their special excellence, their whole opinion of themselves suffers more than if they had not at first believed in their superiority, the unexpected shock to their pride causing them to give way more than their real strength warrants [Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War , vii. 67 (Chicago: Encyclopedia Brittanica , 1952), p. 556]. II — v — Most People Assume You’re Unnaturally Assertive. Settling into her duties as Global Village podesta, Marta Meringue copes with recent alien contacts with humanity. Piero della Vigna departs the court of Frederick II to travel to Worms, crossing the Alps and booking passage on a Rhine River excursion. Marta reflects upon a recent trip to the Inference Library with Sasha to take the exam for the post of Global Village podesta. As the leading families of Ossian wait for the arrival of Ylferim to shoot them, Soundman reviews the former’s dossier. an An Indocile, nominated as Nicean Grand High Ambassador, faces resistance from her own kins– monad, Ne Dipol. Mirabeau refers to future events in Washington, D.C.: Fernand takes a train to the district, accosts the great author Sergei Kalamparumple, and is promptly detested. ~ page 63 ~ 1833 Fashion Plate: evening dress (left) and two day dresses. The lady on the right wears a fichu-pelerine (http://content.lib.washington.edu/costumehistweb/index.html%7C).* pelerine Act II, Signature v - (1) Main Entry: pel£er£ine Pronunciation: ƒpe-l„-‚r‡n, ‚pe-l„-r„n Function: noun Etymology: obsolete French, neckerchief, from French pèlerine , feminine of pèlerin pilgrim, from Late Latin pelegrinus — more at pilgrim Date: 1744 : a woman's narrow cape made of fabric or fur and usually with long ends hanging down in front. *[Image & caption credit and following text courtesy of Wikipedia]: General trends. The prevalent trend of Romanticism from the 1820s through the mid-1840s, with its emphasis on strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience and its recognition of the picturesque, was reflected in fashion as in other arts. Items of historical dress including neck ruffs, ferronieres (jeweled headbands worn across the forehead), and sleeves based on styles of earlier periods were popular [Tortora, Phyllis and Keith Eubank, Survey of Historic Costume , 2nd Ed. (Fairchild, 1994), p. 275]. Innovations in roller printing on textiles introduced new dress fabrics. Rich colors such as the Turkey red of the 1820s were still found [Tozer, Jane and Sarah Levitt, Fabric of Society: A Century of People and their Clothes 1770–1870 (Laura Ashley Press, 1983), p. 29], but delicate floral prints on light backgrounds were increasingly popular. More precise printing eliminated the need for dark outlines on printed designs, and new green dyes appeared in patterns of grasses, ferns, and unusual florals. Combinations of florals and stripes were fashionable [Tozer and Levitt (1983), p. 33]. Overall, both men's and women's fashion showed width at the shoulder above a tiny waist. Men's coats were padded in the shoulders and across the chest, while women's shoulders sloped to huge sleeves. Overview. In the 1830s, fashionable women's clothing styles had distinctive large "leg of mutton" or "gigot" sleeves, above large full conical skirts, ideally with a narrow, low waist between (achieved through corseting) [Tortora and Eubank (1994), p. 278]. The bulkiness of women's garments both above and below the waist was intended to make the waist look smaller than it was — this was the final repudiation of any last lingering aesthetic influences of the Empire silhouette of ca. 1795–1825. Heavy stiff fabrics such as brocades came back into style, and many 18th- century gowns were brought down from attics and cut up into new garments. The combination of sloping shoulders and sleeves which were very large over most of the arm (but narrowing to a small cuff at the wrist) is quite distinctive to the day dresses of the 1830s. Pelerines, or lace coverings draped over the shoulders, were popular (one of several devices, along with full upper- arm sleeves and wide necklines, to emphasize the shoulders and their width) [Tortora and Eubank (1994), p. 281]. ~ page 64 ~ metes & bounds Act II, Signature v - (2) Main Entry: 2mete Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin meta Date: 15th century: boundary ²metes and bounds³ *[Image & caption credit and following text courtesy of Wikipedia]: Metes and bounds is a system or method of describing land, real property (in contrast to personal property) or real estate. The system has been used in England for many centuries, and is still used there in the definition of general boundaries. By custom, it was applied in the original Thirteen Colonies that became the United States, and in many other land jurisdictions based on English common law [Cribbet, Johnson, Findley, and Smith, Property, Cases and Materials , 8th Ed. (Foundation Press, 2002)]. Typically the system uses physical features of the local geography, along with directions and distances, to define and describe the boundaries of a parcel of land. The boundaries are described in a running prose style, working around the parcel in sequence, from a point of beginning, returning back to the same point. It may include references to other adjoining parcels (and their owners), and it, in turn, could also be referred to in later surveys. At the time the description is compiled, it may have been marked on the ground with permanent monuments placed where there were no suitable natural monuments. The term "metes" refers to a boundary defined by the measurement of each straight run, specified by a distance between the terminal points, and an orientation or direction. A direction may be a simple compass bearing, or a precise orientation determined by accurate survey methods. The term "bounds" refers to a more general boundary description, such as along a certain watercourse, a stone wall, an adjoining public road way, or an existing building. The system is often used to define larger pieces of property (e.g. farms), and political subdivisions (e.g. town boundaries) where precise definition is not required or would be far too expensive, or previously designated boundaries can be incorporated into the description. Usage. A typical description for a small parcel of land would be: "beginning with a corner at the intersection of two stone walls near an apple tree on the north side of Muddy Creek road one mile above the junction of Muddy and Indian Creeks, north for 150 rods to the end of the stone wall bordering the road, then northwest along a line to a large standing rock on the corner of John Smith's place, thence west 150 rods to the corner of a barn near a large oak tree, thence south to Muddy Creek road, thence down the side of the creek road to the starting point." The sequence begins with an identified corner serving as benchmark, then gives distance, direction and various boundary descriptions as if one were walking the bounds pacing off the distance to the next corner where there is a change of direction. Generally where watercourses form part of the bounds their meander is taken as a straight line between the established corners and their monuments. In many deeds, the bearing is described not by a clockwise degree measure out of 360 degrees, but instead by indicating a direction north or south (N or S) followed by a degree measure out of 90 degrees and another direction west or east (W or E). For example, such a bearing might be listed as "N 42°35' W," which means that the bearing is 42°35' counterclockwise (to the west) from north. This has the advantage of providing the same degree measure regardless of which direction a particular boundary is being followed; the boundary can be traversed in the opposite direction simply by exchanging N for S and E for W. In other words, "N 42°35' W" describes the same boundary as "S 42°35' E," but is traversed in the opposite direction. In most distance measures, especially those in older deeds and where measuring distances over a furlong, boundary lengths are listed in rods or poles instead of feet or meters. Rods and poles are equivalent measures equaling 16.5 feet. Resolving inconsistencies. Some courts have established a list of priorities to resolve inconsistent descriptions of corners. In descending order starting with the most reliable: (1) natural monuments, (2) artificial monuments such as roads and marked or surveyed lines, (3) adjacent tracts or boundaries, (4) courses or directions, (5) distances, and (6) area or quantity [Stoebuck & Whitman, The Law of Property , 3rd Ed. (2000), p. 827]. Difficulties. Once such a survey is in place, the corners may have to depend on tradition and long use to establish the line along the boundaries between them. In some areas where land was deeded before 1693 the lengths given predate the changes to the length of the furlong and mile by Queen Elizabeth I. In other places references to the official borders of towns, counties, states and even the U.S. may have changed. Compass directions always have to be tied to a table of annual deflections because magnetic north is constantly changing. The description might refer to landmarks such as the large oak tree which could die, rot and disappear; or be confused with a different tree that had grown over time. Streams might dry up, meander or change course. Man-made features such as roads, walls, markers or stakes used to mark corners and determine the line of the boundaries between corners may have been moved. As these features move, change and disappear over time, when it comes time to re-establish the corners along the line of these boundaries (for sale, subdivision, or building construction) it can become difficult, even impossible, to determine the original location of the corner.

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