The League of Men with Fancy Gloves

Easily the most understood of groups secreting themselves away from direct observation, The League fashions itself after Minoan Craft Ritual, Fornication Timetables and late-style arithmetical pant-fashions -- at least in so much as the latter represents a conquering fashion, a being made of spaces between fingers five --- and in that failure is a layer of experience, as the Hand too removes sensation.

As such, The Gloved have been seen as a Gnostic group, rejecting perception as tainted, untrue, a source of suffering. Fashionable group of Poets and wayward mystics seemingly gathered to harrass the establishment, the revolution, the avant-garde and especially The League of Gnomes. Famous for their Massive Dinner Send-Back of 1955 at Ryan O'Donnely's Ribhouse and Honkytonk.

Organizational Structure

The League is composed of three grades: Greenhorn, Crack Stepper and Holy Man/Woman. Each grade involves a ritual progressively entitled "Running the Gauntlet," "Taking the Gloves Off," and "Throwing Down the Gloves."

Publications

Hand Pants: How Gloves Make the Man, rare poetical grimoire.

Crack Stepper Jack, the Untold Story Told, scathing indictment of disbarred member Cleo James Thurstunwell.

Lollipop Enclave, collection of essays on Post-Utopian Theory.

See Also

• Unseen hand

The totemic indicator of the Crack Stepper grade, on display at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C.

Desiderata

Aside from the Massive Dinner Send-Back and the Puti-Core Scandal, the League has been linked with numerous sinister schemes and maleficient shenanigans.

Michael Jackson is a member, but only honorary.

The League runs an Ale House in Prague called "Ye Fingered Friend."

They have long been involved in the traffic of Absinthe inEurope.