Order Bulletin

Subject: Temporary Affiliation — Dr. Basil Cartwright
Issued under Seal of the Keeper Emeritus

Brethren and Fellow Concordants,

It is my distinct if cautiously measured privilege to announce that Dr. Basil Cartwright, of the Royal Society of Egyptian Antiquities and Applied Mysteries (London), has arrived in Two Rivers under the auspices of our inaugural Scholarly Exchange Program.

Dr. Cartwright is a specialist in Egyptological methodologies — a discipline whose desert origins may, at first glance, appear ill-suited to the littoral concerns of Lake Michigan. Nevertheless, he brings with him a formidable knowledge of iconography, symbolic alignments, and field practices which, he assures us, may illuminate even our freshwater archives.

While among us, Dr. Cartwright shall be accorded provisional status, with access to the Archive and participation in selected field surveys. He is to be treated with the courtesy befitting a guest, though members are reminded that his ceremonial approach to the simplest tasks — whether the preparation of tea or the cataloguing of rust stains — is to be endured, not imitated.

In a gesture of inter-societal goodwill, Dr. Cartwright will present a lecture at our next assembly, tentatively titled “From Cartouche to Compass: The Shared Language of Symbol and Shore.” Members are expected (and required) to attend, with at least two prepared questions of a non-sarcastic nature.

Let us welcome him as a colleague, a curiosity, and perhaps — in time — a friend.

— Alistar Corvus, Keeper Emeritus
Custodes Litoris. Memoria Maris.