Our magistrates have shown themselves well aware of this problem. Their red robes, the ermine in which they swaddle themselves like furry cats, the law-courts where they sit in judgment, the fleurs de lys, all this august panoply was very necessary. If physicians did not have long gowns and mules, if learned doctors did not wear square caps and robes four times too large, they would never have deceived the world, which finds such an authentic display irresistible.
- Blaise Pascal, Pensées 44

This issue of The Transcendental Friend features an article in the Critical Dictionary by Alan Gilbert, titled "Prescriptive," followed by a sort of illustrated companion in a brief section called Medicine.

The Sixth Chapter in the Bestiary offers a horse story from the 13th Century called Le Vair Palefroi, presented by Laird Hunt.

Rosetta, writing out of literature, presents a selection of the writings of one Robert M. Larsen, edited by G. Kalleberg & E. Tage Larsen.

Kevin Killian's "Cut" resumes with the second of three installments in Schizmata.

Jonathan Skinner presents the work of French poet Gherasim Luca in translation in Report.

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Garrett Kalleberg

[The Pascal quote is translated by A. J. Kralsheimber in Blaise Pascal, Pensées (London: Penguin Books, 1966).]