Exhibit Het

AD 2005: Someone claims—in no other place than Below Dunster’s maiden post—once to have claimed to be “Benjy, Bede and Botkin all in one.”

Today we furnish evidence in favor and illumination of that all-but-forgotten claim, made, in fact, precisely one year and one week prior to this exhibit’s claim (not the claim made by this exhibit, but the claim exhibited in it). The purpose of this exhibit is manifold; its import is hunky enough that the exhibit itself spans five (5) posts—a Below Dunster first—that must (must) be read as a unit. Properly defined, the following four posts constitute a sub-exhibit to this one, but to keep the cataloguing system clean we will not tamper too much with the nomenclature.

The attentive inspectrix will note that this exhibit’s posts depict four (4) 5-by-8 slices of cardstock, selectively discolored with an 18-centimeter (7.0866etc.-inch) tapered rotring fountain pen, three (3) on the same day, January 10, 2004 (birthday of my neighbor), one (1) on a different day, March 11, 2004, but with reference to the first day (i.e., that of the other three cards, not that of the formless void and fiat lux). The images may be enlarged by clicking on them. Each post includes an unedited transcript of its card to assist the reader—unedited to reflect the card’s own slapdash composition at a hobbled kitchen table—yielding here or there a slightly worrisome comma deputizing for more substantial punctuation, and the like. This is not code; it is mistake: Exhibit Het exposes all.
Read, then, and connect.