AUGUST 18 - MONDAY - DAY 34

KHUN CHUCK RAN ACROSS SOME SERIOUS PLAYERS ON HIS WALK LAST NIGHT. IT WAS DAY 33 1/3 . HE WAS DOING THE PALATINE DOWN, SYCAMORE BACK AND SOMEWHERE NOT FAR FROM THE END OF SYCAMORE THINGS TURNED PLEASANTLY IN A DIRECTION AWAY FROM CONCENSUS REALITY .

AT FIRST HE COULD ONLY SEE IN SILHOUETTE, AND HE WONDERED WHAT ON EARTH IS HE LOOKING AT .WHEN THEY MOVED INTO LIGHT THERE WALKED TWO VERY EXQUISITE SNOW WHITE LITHUANIAN HORSES . SOMEWHAT CURIOUSLY , ONE OF THEM PUSHED A VERY OLD PERAMBULATOR, A BABY CARRIAGE, EXUDING STRONG WHITE LIGHT ,

YOU ARE THINKING KHUN CHUCK HAS CAVED, SLIPPED HIS MOORINGS . BUT HE HAS NOT . THE CLOSER THEY CAME THE MORE UNQUESTIONABLY REAL THEY WERE .THEIR HEADS BOBBED AND LOOKED SIDE TO SIDE,. AND THEY PRANCED . SYCAMORE WAS HELD IN RAPT ATTENTION . THEY HAD A JAUNTY WAY ABOUT THEM AND HEADED RIGHT FOR ME.

WE MET AT 70TH AND SYCAMORE STREET AND THE HORSES FLEW INTO A FLUID AND MYSTERIOUS CANTER AND CIRCLED AROUND ME FOR SOME TIME . I WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE TO WITNESS THIS EVENT , CARS CIRLCED THE BLOCK, WALKERS STOOD UNABLE TO GO FORWARD , REVELERS CAME OUT INTO THE STREET WITH THEIR WINE GLASSES.

BUT THE CROWN JEWEL OF ALL THIS WAS THAT INSIDE THE CARRIAGE LAY MY NEWLY RELUSTERED GOLDEN EGG, BRILLIANT AS THE FIRST DAY I SAW IT . AND DELIVERED BACK TO ME IN THE GRANDEST STYLE. VERY SLOWLY I PIECED THINGS TOGETHER , AND OF COURSE , WE ARE ON DAY 33 1/3. WE ARE ONE THIRD OF THE WAY THERE . THIS MARKER I CAN PROMISE YOU HAS BEEN DULY OBSERVED .

FRANKLY, MY DATA SEEMS QUITE PALE ALONGSIDE THE VISION OF THESE HORSES , BUT I WILL SAY , BLOOD COUNTS ALL REMAIN STRONG , THINGS SEEM TO BE RUNNING VERY WELL , NOW WE JUST HAVE TO WAIT . LET ME SAY "CHEERS -TO WHITE HORSES PRANCING ON SYCAMORE ."

THINGS ARE SELDOM WHAT THEY SEEM , KHUN CHUCK