The uniform geometrical theory of diffraction is a high-frequency method for solving electromagnetic scattering problems from electrically small discontinuities or discontinuities in more than one dimension at the same point. Relevant to discontinuities is the obscure folder marked 'Sapygidae' (solitary aculeate wasps) in which a notebook containing the following observation was discovered by Professor Mundeign. 'I will show you something different from either your shadow at morning striding behind you or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.'
Despite its reputation in the literary world, there is less information in Mundeign's catalogue on the poetry of Dejan Stojanovic than there is about about the apium graveolens var. rapaceum (aka celeriac). Even though celeriac was already known in Italy during the 16th century, it took almost two centuries for it to make it to the tables of the rest of Europe. In England it was only introduced in the 19th century via Alexandria. Essentially, it consists of a large, white, relatively smooth edible root tuber, crowned by bright green leaves with hard, thick stalks. Its taste is very strong and slightly peppery. Celeriac is poor in vitamin C, but contains numerous trace elements. It is a nutritional vegetable which provides lots of energy, stimulates the metabolism and acts as a diuretic.
More information can be found in: 'Edible Medicinal and Non Medicinal Plants: Volume 9, Modified Stems, Roots and Bulbs' by T.K.Lim. (Springer, 2014)
In the considerably respected literature archive of Professor Mundeign's catalogue, the poetry review index is the Cinderella section. Few people have therefore read Ellis Gaunt's memorable critique of Stojanovic which focuses on the lines:
To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon;
To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves;
To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets
Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching.
― Dejan Stojanovic
The Land Registry tracking archive which formed an integral element of the original Mundeign papers has, over the years, diminished in significance. However there remains an intriguing chapter which records the deposition by local landowners before the Sherif General (Southern Zone) which indexes the settlement pattern along the coastal areas which have been subject to irreversible erosion.
Earl Grey was a close friend of Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester. Coke is remembered primarily as an agricultural reformer rather than a politician, however historians have questioned the idea that he can be credited with sparking the British Agricultural Revolution through the reforms he made to farming on his estates. He remained in robust health after his retirement, and in 1822 at the age of 68 (after 21 years as a widower) he married his 18-year-old god-daughter, and in his eighties had a fifth child. He took no pleasure in attending the House of Lords, however, describing it as "the hospital for incurables".
Professor Mundeign was an inveterate sceptic. Whenever he received a detailed academic paper, his first instinct was to shred it. In this way his workload became manageable, and only those with the greatest perseverance managed to get referenced within his extensive archive. It was therefore only by chance and luck that the papers of Felix Prupaddle were saved for posterity. The Prupaddle conjecture posited the theory of numerical imbalance in heavy coagulants of the x-phylum. Initially his suggestions were received with universal derision, but over the decades more and more investigators came to realise that much of what he was suggesting could be picked up with evidence using electromagnetic rondation. As a result the conjecture is currently receiving revived interest within the discipline of Pataphysics (See "The Myth of Sisyphus"). Just look at them and sigh.
According to Lao Tzu, all difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. The Mundeign catalogue began as a mere note slipped between the pages of a book on Quantum Neurology, and the recompilation of the catalogue after the great fire of Aix-en-Provence began after two building workers discovered a thin wedge of the original ebony bookcase that belonged to Casimir Mundane.
