The name we perhaps know is Voltaire.
It's a nom de plume, the character was a writer. An insightful scribe, if he did scribe anything — mostly writing. Not merely writing on random surfaces though.
Nom de Plume
Nom de plume means pen name.
Pen back then used feather, the quill. Not the feather per se, that would be quite a tedious labour to write even one letter. It was the pointy tip of the feather dipped in goo. Then the goo dipped pointy tip of the feather was used to write, with the feather altogether — as one — but not dipping all of them. Holding it properly was a must. And, not goo per se. But broadly, it fell under that category. Now, it falls under that category.
Nom means name, plume means feather. Like in children song Alouette.
This line: Alouette, je te plumerai... Plumerai means pluck, I will pluck you, as the alouette will be bald in that song. And will be cooked. Hm. That excalates.
To sooth us down, alouette is lark bird in English — because there's no pocket-size lark baboon. I mean that specific kind of bird in English is called lark by English, in case we got mixed up perhaps the Spanish called it lark first. That still doesn't change the fact that someone consumed one or five larks while singing in the process of... preparation.
How... 🤔 does that even compute in linear timeline? While singing... But already consumed the in progress meal... Plucking. Ah, one probably already had one, and ANOTHA! (Singing Frère Jacques)
It is sung by children, so it must be wholesome 👀 — from a cook's standpoint, it is. But... I, particularly, rarely heard them singing that. Perhaps because no one ordered the larks menu... Perhaps 🤔
Yes, Brother James (Frère Jacques) was not plucked because of the overslept incident.
💡 In medieval and Renaissance Europe, particularly France and Italy, eating tiny, delicate, wild animals was seen as a status symbol ✅
🤵 Good evening, monsieur. Fancy for a delicate alouette sans tête? How many? Twenty?
Y-E-S
🕴️ Buonasera, signore! Desidera un trololo?
👀
📜 Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet sounded too sophisticated (hard to read-cough) to readers, so Voltaire it was. Did you notice how I mixed sound and sight in one sentence?
If, for instance, I ask you, Did you read that book by François-Marie Arouet? I probably would not pronounce the name correctly. I'd prefer, Did you read? (pointing a book)
In painting, the character looks like this.
Instead of being the "unpronounceable by you named guy", he swiveled graciously with Voltaire. Still keeping the vowels, as XGTRPC would produce no sound.
Je suis Voltaire! JAHAHA (cape fleurie et tout.. cape au vent et tout)
I guess those unspeakable names are closely related to:
- Having no consonant or vowel. Guess the consonant or vowel. Or die. Alright, take my wallet.
- Different system for letters but in a hurry to give lesson. How is that pronounced, madamsir? Madamsir? 👀
- Absurd swear word which will somehow agitate the cosmos and shoot thunderbolt to our forehead from point blank — before the agitation. Classic.
- 🤔 ... Indeed
As I noticed, a lot of of other classical personas didn't grow beard in that era, the enlightenment era. And the male wore oddly feminine clothing and wig.
So then, to answer my own question...
It was the custom back then. The male nobles must be clean shaven, wear those kind of garments, makeup (white powder, wall paint, sparkling lip gloss, charcoal eyeliner, and mashed trebuchet projectiles), and wig. It was the dress code.
and awkwardly eccentric = Rich ✅Mostly above is accurate, except the others. Can you spot the addition I put? Hint, wall paint. Hint 🤔
We cannot be a hard working peasant and somehow immortalised by esteemed blokes which didn't even know what time the sun rises — thus born the contraption called clock. The foundation is.... that. Network. Of noble bloodlines.
I mean, we can be a hard working peasant, it's virtuous. Imagine a lot of us plural entities, becoming one hard working peasant? But because the sentence is too long... Oh well...
Who Started It?
🤔 🤷
I suppose it's the combining both polarities — Unity. It's an old religion or way of life that was agreed upon. Alchemy is the term I'm referring to. Started as not-so-innocent gold producing bonkerism into, Oh! This has this pattern... All hail pattern... which leads to another one. But mate, this one only, this.. Hail. It is still hush-hush. Oh wait, whoops.
Because if it were twonkism, well.. Twonkism would suggest they accidentally made gold by slipping on a grease-covered, finely-lubricated banana and knocking over a barrel of mercury. Knock, bang, clank... the mercury-bathing people inside the barrel would hear 💥 Gold!, shouted the slipped alchemist on the floor upside-down. How... Where? That makes no sense. Banana first became a consumable component in Europe properly around 16th century.
💡 Twonkism is not to be confused with bonkerism. Whereas bonkerism sees patterns in madness, twonkism causes madness through sheer slapstick divinity. The anti-method method. 🌀
And for paleness, it's based on our own pigment (pigmentum — melanin) and majestic blood cells metabolism. The skin will automatically be paradoxically brighter to reach out in agony for the bloody minimum sunlight. The castle architecture is like that, like a cave — hence, that. But... also a dungeon. Also Poles bonkers regions.
💡 Pigmentum is Latin — one word — meaning paint or dye — generally means colouring substance (matter). Pig, never mind the debate between Saxon scholars, is Old English (Anglo-Saxon) in root — pigge. Porcus is Latin for pig. And yes, native Britons have their own terms for pig: sukko, sucull, hogh, and so forth. Right before pig, there was swīn — which we know now as swine. ✅
💡 Anglo-Saxon
💡 Anglo is from Angles (Anglii). They were a real Germanic tribe living in what is now Schleswig-Holstein (northern Germany / southern Denmark). After the Angles migrated to Britain (5th century, after Roman withdrawal), later historians — especially medieval scribes — started using "Angli" and "Anglo" to describe the settlers and their territories. ✅
💡 Saxons were another Germanic tribe, neighbours but distinct from the Angles. They lived mainly further west along what is now north-western Germany — Saxony, Lower Saxony, parts near the North Sea. Saxon perhaps came from the word seax — purely Germanic in root. Seax means short sword or knife. Therefore, Saxons literally mean knife-men or sword-guys. Friendly name for a tribe, aye? ✅
💡 Angles and Saxons were different tribes. But both Germanic, both raiders and settlers of Britain. ✅
💡 Seax
💡 Seax almost sounds like sex. They have different roots. Seax is Germanic, while sex is Latin (Roman's utterance) in origin. Sexus, meaning division by nature — then afterward, broadened into "the intercourse act" and other meanings. Now if one aggressive Saxon lad realised it, he would shout, Oi! Bloody! 🤬 Oi, I'm not a division course... What course? 🤔 You future gobbet! See here, (blades acrobat) they will (throwing daggers in the air) divide you. (Flailing, avoiding falling daggers) OI! ΩΙ ΓΟΒΒΕΤ! Ohm.. Omega Iota Gamma Omicron Be... (inaudible) ⚔️
💡 Britons are original Celtic inhabitants of Britain before Germanic invasions. In Latin, it is Britanni, meaning the painted or tattooed people. ✅
🎥 Bravecustard
That bit in Bravecustard, blue paint, is Briton's tradition — completely bonkers for 13th century Scots. As in, bonk-bonk-bonk-... — domino effect. Staring 👀 Male Gibbon if I'm not tipsy. Never mind the 16th-century Highland chic — kilt. You see, in 13th century, they had their own sophisticated battlefield garments, not frantically shouting "freedom" without proper helmet. Especially William Wallace. Unless "freedom" means some tactical flanking or other surprising manoeuvre, which is not. Purely freedom for running toward random chance in freestyle, some extras tripped I assume, plenty I mean. Freedom! (Extras howling along. Starts running like children after school holding sticks. Some lose their trousers in the process.) (On the other side, imitating the frantic shout) BAZOOKAAAS! (Nobody runs anywhere. Everyone guffaws for few seconds, continued by bazooka squads forming a proper formation. Aiming, launches, reloads calmly, aims, launches, and so on.) Done. Mostly in straight lines with spherical impacts. Because we need also to honour their mixture of periods. Modern warfare response is an accepted tribute.
Omnes vero se Britanni vitro inficiunt, quod caeruleum efficit colorem...Julius Caesar (Book 5 of De Bello Gallico)
Indeed, freedom for guessing what "vitro" is. That Julius with his Latin jargons.
💡 Possession, frenzy, and ritual courage (incidental summoning) were common in tribal period — throughout the world. ✅
Few people and cultures still practice it. But it's... quite different per place: the ritual, deities (spirits), and transformation.
Overall, transforming into a war (killing) machine. Though unstructured-uncontrolled, as in "explosive and relentless". Like a porridge-wielding toddler throwing tantrums, but absolutely lethal with the stamina of a stallion plus blank eerie stares — that sounds like us in our mind when furious, does it not? Ever saw an angry rugby player after three pints? Exactly. Times 2 point 3.
Then came cheating 😂 Romans with cold drills, marching discipline, shield formations (testudo, wedge), and bonkers battle tactics preparation. Alia possessio? Formatio phalangis! Britons fought Romans, then fought Angles-Saxons, then clung onto the west (Wales, Cornwall). Their (Britons') language was Brythonic Celtic. Very well, simplified:
Romans arrived ➡️ Britons fought ➡️ Romans ruled ➡️ Romans withdrew ➡️ Chaos in Britain (Scot and Pict raiders) ➡️ Invited few Saxons via trading networks to defend them ➡️ Saxon mercenaries did the job ➡️ Saxon lads went home told everyone at home ➡️ Angles and Saxons invaded (Jutes coming along) ➡️ Britons pushed west ➡️ Normans arrived ➡️ (Fast forward) now 🍻
England (Englaland)
And thus, England literally means the land of the Angles — on the land called Britain.
🙋♂️ Why not Angleland?
Who knows. Let the mathematical pun slash perspective and whoever did the transposition be in a boxing ring 🔔 In the left corner, the logical, the purist, ready to be smacked and smack back... Alright, freeze. Did you see the angle bit? That.
So, in my opinion, back then, the Angles tried to accommodate the Saxons (beginning of posh) (armed with a set square and a compass), Oh, dear me, in the name of geometrical righteousness, stop, stop stabbing us. The decency demands an audience. How about we swap the letters? And Saxons replied, Oi! Bloody good! Carry on, gobbets. We watch ballgame, do what you must you pompous doodling, drape wearing, monocle eating gobbets. (Turning away.) And thus, the legend. 🤣⁉️🙋♂️🙋♀️ Raising your hands and eyebrows means a proper ovation.
🎥 Roman Trope in Cinema
Romans wearing shiny armours and senate debating with Shakespearean enunciation? Unlikely ❌
Wearing rusty quarter car bumper and uttering -us -is gibberish with a bit exposed robe and half of the arse is shown are more likely ✔️
There, script idea, free 🍺 May your literature be known and your film be adored. It's recommended as horror genre, with post-production blurring and dangling-emphasis technique accompanied by jolly-beat, diminished chords progression music. Entitled, well, it is entitled to be produced. Titled, as a suggestion:
Bonkerus Maximus Arsus: Reenactment of a Tale Based on Another Tale from Loopy Storytellers, Edited for the Good of the Many, Validated by the Commission of Valid Written Things. Beer Is Outside, Buy One Pay One.
Suggested ornamental loincloth sentence beneath the title:
In the annals of wordcraft, there rose a title so vast, so labyrinthine, so merciless in its jest, that no bard dared recite it without ale in hand and laughter in the soul. [Place whistling person here] [Place bikini wearing sandal here] [Place lute here]
That will show to poster makers who's the boss — they are.
💡 Phalanx is Greeks' term (φάλαγξ) — yoinked by Romans. Meaning tightly packed line of soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder, each carrying a shield and spear to form a solid wall of defence and attack. ✅
💡 Melanin comes from Greek: "melas" (μέλας) meaning black or dark. This term chronologically came after pigment. Johann Friedrich Meckel (der Jüngere) was the German anatomist credited with isolating and popularising the term melanin. ✅
By golly, that's a long side note 🤦
Let's Continue
So nobility can be traced further back to either self-anointed or regular anointment. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is different than ointment. Aside from the absurd jest, it is actually written (documented) sporadically throughout cultures, and then exploited surely for "the good of the many" — a castle can fit many, 20 is many. Rise and fall, cyclic. That was when the blur applied, sort of speak. Nothing wrong with it, unless there is 🤣 It is how we are. We are fine, hopefully. But to be precise, it is what we are.
Volt ⚡
Not to be confused with voltage, volt unit (V), as in electric potential difference quantity. It was taken from Alessandro Volta (experimental physicist), an Italian. Completely a different bloke. Brilliantly different.
See how France and Italy bit appears again? Magnifico 🤌 is it not? From François-Marie Arouet, quill, lark, XGTRPC to the foundation of our cellphone? And that bit about thunderbolt? Mwah! From a not-so-innocent question, why didn't that François-Marie Arouet chap wear a beard? Because it is not something a male would wear normally, it naturally flourishes on the face of the face owner.
Face flourish... Dear heavens with beautiful stars... that is properly deranged.
Would you like a face flourish, good sir? Our new therapeutic flowery-fragrant bush on the manifestation of your outward front?
My what festation? There's money in front of me? (Touches own face with flailing arms)
Would you? Cheap.
(Fades away)
Come back, good price, you buy!
(Keeps on fading)
哎呀!
Sig. Alessandro Volta did not write jest, he quantised and quantified our vibration when electrocuted in certain rain. Instead of us, other people. By people, I mean inanimate solids and liquids, and... occasional jolts. And by rain, I mean a structure with walls and roof. So, in a way, Sig. Volta experimentally defined electric potential difference, before the full theoretical framework existed — in a way. Thus, a proper salute to him from his long lost cousin, which was lost in the bonkerism I display here with cape.
Monsieur Voltaire and Signore Volta coexisted for 33 years.
33-3-12 ➡️ 33-3- ➡️ 12 ➡️ 1 + 2 = 3 ➡️ 33-3-3 ➡️ 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 12 ➡️ 12 ➡️ 33-3- ➡️ 33-3-12 ♻️ is one version of the cosmic dance on the noble digit floor 👯♂️👯♀️
🧠 Volt from Voltaire
Imagine if volt were taken from Voltaire. That would be an amusingly insightful quantity for electric potential difference which would question the engineer about the PCB layout or power gridlines arrangement.
The viral "Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet" by Herr Georg Simon Ohm 🏆 perhaps would be... crayon scribbled textile, in a way. See how Germany bit appears again? Fantastisch 🧑🔬
Viral Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet
On TikTok, Instagram, and whatnots, a peculiar sudden surge of #OhmSquad #VoltageVibes #ResistanceChallenge #MathIsLife — users left 🤣
🎶 The Music
Since this is about looking back in time, here is one:
Mike + The Mechanics - Over My Shoulder
Aside from the marvelously introspective, unique, tonally-contrast, catchy song, we would find in the music video school-uniform wearing school staffs roaming about in the graveyard smiling.
By that realisation, there could be a grave-digging practical examination before lunch.
Constructing a graveyard inside an educational facility perimeter would perhaps accelerate the learning process. Or... (pointing at graveyard).
This is the painting of King James I of England when he was a child. No alouette here.
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