mystic pizza

Bearky parrot looked up from his book.
I had just opened the door, startling him.
The book he was frittering was my sixty year old Nancy Wilson Ross irreplaceable family heirloom biography of Saint Joan of Arc.
Saint Joan of Arc is one of those Saints, like Saint Patrick and Saint Juan Diego who are of interest to me because of their historicity and because their influence on nations is observable.
The Nancy Wilson Ross version of Saint Joan's life is a children's book but still a thundering good read.
Or a thundering good chew if you're a parrot.
"Oh Beaky," I moaned, "oh innocent gentle Beaky, oh curtain eating chair poohing Beaky, thou little knowest the damage thou hast done."
"Rauk," said Beaky as if he knew full well.
Sir Isaac Newton would have had a field day.