According to the mannaz rune, the beginning of everything is in the self, and the source is found in clear water. The connection between the self and the rest of creation comes about by means of water. The mannaz rune reflects …

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them.

For the IMF's support of musical amateurism fed into an existing channel of casual music-making in the Jewish immigrant home: pianomania.

... of optimus, meaning “best,” which in turn is the superlative suppletive form of bonus, “good.”