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Updated: April 30, 2025
He says you are the only frank mortal he ever met." And with this I was escorted back to my rooms at the hotel, impressed with the idea that all is not lead that doesn't glitter, and when I thought of my invention of the word "stult," I began to wish I had never been born. A Royal Outing As may be imagined after my untoward interview with Jupiter, the state of my mind was far from easy.
Stult is a new term, meaning all kinds of a fool, plus two. And I've got a few more if you want them." "Want them?" he cried. "By Vulcan, I dote upon them! They are nectar to my thirsty ears. Go on."
One likes better in some ways Cato's stult old Roman attitude: who scorned Greek all his life for sheer foppery, while he knew of nothing better written in it than such trash as poetry and philosophy; but at eighty came on a Greek treatise on manure and straightway learned the language that he might read and enjoy something profitable and thoroughly Roman in spirit.
And I began: "Well, after referring to the word 'idiot' in the index, just to get a lead," I said, "I shall begin by saying that you are evidently a hebetudinous imbecile, an indiscriminate stult " "Hold on!" he cried. "What's that last? I never heard the term before." "Stult an indiscriminate stult," I said, scornfully. "I invented the word myself. Real words won't describe you.
"Well, I'm glad you didn't know," Jupiter returned majestically, "for I can use that word stult in my business. Now suppose we have a bit of luncheon and then start out." After eating sparingly we began our game. I was provided with a caddie that looked like one of Raphael's angels, and Jupiter himself handed me a driver from his own bag.
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