W IS FOR WYRD

At our table, the ghost of Mark Twain muttered, "Weird."
I spun around, for when the three Norns merged they became the Entity, Wyrd --- not Something you wanted to see in Meilori's.

But only the three Norns cackled beyond our table not Wyrd.

Then, they did merge becoming the towering, eerie Wyrd. I swallowed for she flowed right up to our table.
"Fairly, Freud, did thee earn the contempt of The Twain."
Freud started to sputter but suddenly his lips disappeared.
"Hush! Thou forced thy sister-in-law to sleep behind thee and thy wife's bed with but a thin cloth between she and thee."
Even without lips, Freud muffled, "Space was limited in Vienna!"
"In the summer of 1898, Freud, then a robust 42, took a tripto Switzerland with his sister-in-law, Minna Bernays, who was then 33. 


Thecouple stayed at a popular hotel in the Swiss Alps -- the second most costly --
and, remarkably, the hotellog from that time is still there. Not only hadthey stayed in a double room, but Freud had registered them as "Dr. Freudand frau.!"

"Not only is The Twain too Victorian in his nature to shame you in front of Roland, but so was Jung."
Wyrd trilled, "Former  Freud disciple, Carl Jung, visited the Freud home and Minna confessed the affair to him in great detail and how itweighed heavily upon her conscience."
Freud groaned, and Mark shook his head sadly at the ghost. 
"Men'sminds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves."
"Then, there is the matter of Minna's abortion ...."
Freud sobbed without lips. and Mark softly said, "Please, Wyrd, no more."
She turned majestically to me. "Now, thou knowest why Freud is condemned never to leave Meilori's."
She became the 3 Norns again which was hardly an improvement.