The Mystery of Lot
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The Mystery of Lot

Lot, simply put, is a counter used in gaming or sports. But from there it springs forth into a universe of complexity. It blossoms into a very important aspect of the concept of "felicity" or the power to perform or, in "hamburger English", "do-ability", one of those dreaded hyphenated words the English hate so much. In Australian it's more like a tinny in a tinny with salt crocks up the creek.

Lot is an ancient Word and concept. We usually think of it as "one's lot in life" and so on, but the concept of the tool in this handle has been lost. However, they're digging it up with their wry, almost instinctive fascination with the games -- any contest where a score is kept. They don't know why they're sitting on the bleachers at the local high school game or the Sally League baseball field, but what they are doing is trying to grasp a big concept. They're unwittingly working at it.

The key is the concept of the "score". Also vaguely conceived of as the "tale" or tally. The count. Then these people, usually male, go out there and begin to do things, they know not how.

The tale is a part of productivity of "faculty", and is another different ingredient, "felicity", which is the results end of do-ability, known in archaic terms as fruitfulness.

Of course there are many other aspects such as "variegated" and "diversiform" or enlivened by variety and multiformity.

One point is, if we know we're looking at ways to be able to apply the tally or lot, then we can cut to the chase and stop wasting time at the arena. After all , but the spectator is really about, unbeknownst to them, is a thirst for knowledge. All they know is, it seems to work for them , and it's good for business. Of course, others are in the bleachers for other reasons and that's their problem . And we'll leave it at that.

28 February, 2005