Areopagus Volume LXXXIII

Seven short lessons every someday.

Welcome one and all to the eighty third volume of the Areopagus. During a rather comical encounter with an amphibian today, I remembered that the great and witty poet Kobayashi Issa wrote hundreds of haikus about the creeping creatures of the world. Here is one of them:

A huge frog and I / staring at each other / neither of us moves

I could not have put it better! But the frog I had to leave, for an Areopagus demanded to be written, and written it has been...