SEAWEED, TERPENEOLS, AND TWEED

Yesterday my paintings of crabs were mentioned. Including the three which featured crabs smoking pipes. What was NOT discussed was the tobacco crustaceans would enjoy. Now, what would be appropriate, given their surroundings, might be Navy Flake, but I feel that as nature's little contrarians and rebels, the carapaced critters would, if they smoked pipes, perhaps tend toward something far less predictable, more ironic. Hobbit's Weed.
That being a compound invented decades ago by Tewksbury in Denver.

Two parts BCA, one part Lane's Very Cherry, and one part Sutliff 1M. Respectively: black vanilla cavendish, cherry Virginia -burley - cavendish, and burley - Virginia - black vanilla cavendish.

Such a product would leave their pipes wet.
A tendency of aromatic concoctions.

The more mature individuals among them would eschew it, having learned over the years that hobbits have hairy calves, bad taste, and a horrid habit of playing D&D or other jejune role-playing games when more than two of them are gathered. Or talking nonsense about LotR, Startrek, and Anime. At great and sickening length.

Also, hobbits reek of rancid vanilla. Ick poo.

On second and third thought, they'd more likely smoke full English blends, and for all the world pretend they were college boys at Berkeley. A tweed coat, three pipes as the absolute minimum (including a Ropp cherrywood for those late nights swotting Virgil and Suetonius), and a tendency to hide a bottle of Port or Sherry behind the multivolume encyclopaedia on the third shelf over in the library.

They'd have a weakness for one of the librarians; a shy little moray eel with spectacles.
She's much more exciting than she realizes. Plus rather kittenish.


I remind my readers that I too have an old cherry wood.

Actually, I have more than one such item.
They're not made anymore.
That's sad.



Plus, as a specimen of something appropriately professorial looking, AND quite suitable for motoring down to the seashore at Sealthong Point on a summer Sunday, a rather lovely Ropp Montagnard.

You'll note that it has a cherrywood shank interstice.
It is dashing and gallavantish.


This is why college students really must take classics courses. It's essential for a developed mind, necessary perspectives and cultural depth, and it makes them more interesting and rewarding to be around. And there will be eels.



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