Fence posts must be cut when the moon is waning; cut under a waxing moon, they will rot as soon as they are sunk into the ground. I know this because a number of posts on new fencing, and some supporting the new olive plantings, have had to be replaced after rotting at the base within the year.
'Which shows, Signora, that they were cut under the wrong moon'.
'But how do you know the state of the moon when they were cut?'
'Because they are rotting.'
Right. So it's not just bottling wine that is excited by the pale moon.
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This is a beautiful, and original, rethorical figure which ought to have or be given a Greek name. I suppose it is a sophism. A phenomenon (rotting poles) being regarded as evidence of a cause (wrong moon phase) when an infinite number of alternative possible causes could have been invoked as an equally plausible/implausible explanation.
Like sun-spots as an explanation of business cycles.
Practitioners could be called lunatics.
or devotees, the faithful, the believers
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