The Oracle

State your occasion, or describe the situation in your own words. The Oracle consults the collection and produces the manul the moment requires.

the Oracle is in. the mist is only its breath

1. The occasion

Good Manul Morning The ritual greeting. Administered before coffee. Good Manul Night For the end of a long day on the steppe. Manulday Monday, but with fur. It does not help. Today Friday Weekend protocol. Composure optional. Birthday Another lap around the sun, survived. Congratulations Achievements, reluctantly acknowledged. Get well soon Bed rest, enforced by a manul. Running late Apologies, delivered by a third party. Did you even look When the answer was in the message. Good luck Encouragement, with menace.

none of these? the Occasion Forge is open

or

Describe the situation the Oracle listens for keywords; it is old, not stupid

2. For whom optional the Oracle remembers which manuls they have already seen

3. The irony dial

Sincere Dry Ironic Unhinged

the manul agrees with the caption

Otocolobus manul (Pallas, 1776)

Please do not tap the glass. Admission free; manuls not included.

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