for less in the next day or two.

We left with a loaf of the honey and oat bread. It is superb. Soft, substantial, malty, with a chewy oaty crust. Then we went off to get our freebie CD that was given away with The Age newspaper today, to talk about curious bric-a-brac with the women in the op shop, and pace the aisles of the supermarket.

The oddest thing about the high street today was seeing people wearing santa hats. When I first saw a santa hat on an old woman spruiking outside a clothes store, I thought she might be away with the fairies (or the elves as the case may be). Then we passed buskers playing brass instruments and wearing santa hats. Then we saw Santa Clausan individual’s
connection with the polis, to which he belonged.
But, now we come to the more important point,
how the two elements cosmos and polis interact
and combined with each other to form the concept
of cosmopolitanism. Now, the first recorded
cosmopolitan in history is perhaps the 4th
century BCE intellectual, who is known as
Diogenes the Cynic.
And he was born in the polis of Sinope which
is located in present-day Turkey. But at that
point of time it was a Greek colony. Now,
it is said that once when Diogenes was asked,
where he came from.
He replied that he was not a citizen of any
particular polis, but, he was a citizen of
the world. And the Greek word that Diogenes
apparently used was kosmopolitês, which is
the root word of cosmopolitan that we use
today. Now, it is generally agreed that what
Diogenes