How had I gotten from the Austrian author Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando to navel-gazing in a couple of hops on the web? We've been entertaining a guest from Europe, Ches Themann, for the past week here at the Villa Byssina. He was the director of the Austrian version of Sub Pontio Pilato. More than once our discussion has turned to Austrian literature, a subject about which I admittedly know little. Some of the authors we've talked about have great names like the above-mentioned HO. So, this morning, I opened my trusty Britannica, 11th edition, to look for Fritz, but instead fell upon the article on the Hesychasts, those navel-gazing monks on 14th century Mount Athos. Amongst their beliefs was that the soul was located in the belly button, and they turned their glance thither during prayer. As they were also called omphalopsykhoi or umbilicanimi, a quick google turned up the English word, omphalopsychite, on a great obscure word website, Forthright's Phrontistery.