Summation of Diverse Languages I brook no discord in my `AO*1` . Say it in any cloak: it is a sanctuary of kindness. It a hearth and `Home Stone*2` of, neither chaos nor discontent. Where necessary, There is by my door a whip made of time and distance. There is too theatre of merriment, focus and, purpose of form and order. There is acknowledged understanding. There is an absolute pithed simplicity of the bargaining finally done. There is come a calm, faithful coherence in that clarity of peace remaining. (12 May '18) *¹ Standard military acronym for `Area of Operation`. *² “In peasant villages on this world,” he continued, “each hut was originally built around a flat stone which was placed in the center of the circular dwelling. It was carved with the family sign and was called the Home Stone. It was, so to speak, a symbol of sovereignty, or territory, and each peasant, in his own sovereign.”