The word “silhouette” derives from the name of Étienne de Silhouette, a French finance minister who, in 1759, was forced by France’s credit crisis during the Seven Years War to impose severe economic demands upon the French people, particularly the wealthy. Because of de Silhouette’s austere economies, his name became synonymous with anything done or made cheaply and so with these outline portraits. Prior to the advent of photography, silhouette profiles cut from black card were the cheapest way of recording a person’s appearance…. silhouette

In later tellings he eventually turned into a cicada, eternally living, but begging for death… Tithonus

By the late 1920s, Garnett was frail, white-haired, and half-blind. She retired from translating after the publication in 1934 of Three Plays by Turgenev. After her husband’s death in 1937, she became quite reclusive. She developed a heart condition, with attendant breathlessness, and in her last years had to walk with crutches…. Constance Garnett

‘κέκλυτέ μευ πάντές τε θεοὶ πᾶσαί τε θέαιναι,
ὄφρ᾽ εἴπω τά με θυμὸς ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ἀνώγει.

Butler.

Sir Abu Nu’ayr is almost perfectly round at a diameter of four kilometers, with a one kilometer long extension at its southeast end, making the shape of the whole island appear as a drop… Sir Abu Nu’ayr

112-113

’ ὣς ἔφατο: Ζεὺς δ᾽ οὔ τι δολοφροσύνην ἐνόησεν,
ἀλλ᾽ ὄμοσεν μέγαν ὅρκον, ἔπειτα δὲ πολλὸν ἀάσθη.

Butler.

The driving instructor tells Borat he “must not hit the children”; tells Borat he can’t drink when he’s driving because “it’s against the law”; and that he can’t yell out the windows because then they will throw them “both in jail.” He likes Borat, he says, because he’s a nice young man. “Yes,” he tells Borat, “you are my friend.”

The large young black man laughs when he’s compared to Michael Jackson. The older Jewish lady is inexpressibly kindly when she offers Borat food (Borat is terrified by Jews. “Why,” he says, “do you have picture of Jew?”) The driving instructor tells Borat that women have sex with those whom they choose to; it’s called “consent”. “That’s bad for me,” says Borat.

What does Borat learn about love? That there must be forgiveness for those we love (the scene at the church); that our ideas about what love should be fall short of the thing itself (his disappointed love in the celebrity Pamela Anderson); that people should be equal partners in love. In general, he encounters bigotry and resistance to love on his trip.

tarsus/ metatarsus [image]; Chiefly About War Matters [Hawthorne/ 1862] –tantivy towers— Humphrey Bogart in Sahara / Hurt So Bad /

φυσιγγοομαι: “to be excited by eating garlic” (φυσιγξ = garlic).
overslaugh overslaugh, caster, Marginal sea

By the Edwardian standards of the rationally-arrived-at code of values and stable career, young Traverse here was an obviously drifting wreck without much hope of ever being straightened out. What on earth sort of family produced wastrels like this? As long as he was this far from the orbit of an ordinary life, he might as well be pressed into service for a mission… (Against the Day)

The spelling of the name Ouagadougou is derived from the French orthography common in former French African colonies… Ouagadougou

a mythological island said to be the home of the sorceress Circe… aeaea

William Gaddis, The Recognitions, pp.861:

Yet in a way it was something of this order that he awaited, something less threatening, less sectarian that is, for he could hardly admit to having come, like a vulgar Greek, seeking a sign: no, it was rather some vague, exotic manifestation of some equally vague and exotic Presence, a mystery of euhemeristic proportions and, brought forth in his own prose, amenable to reason.

Wikipedia:

Euhemerism is defined in modern academic literature as the theory that myths are distorted accounts of real historical events.

Lord Jim, 47:

A snorting pony snatched him into ‘ewigkeit’ in the twinkling of an eye, and I never saw him again; and what’s more, I don’t know of anybody that ever had a glimpse of him after he departed from my knowledge sitting inside a ramshackle little gharry that fled round the corner in a white smother of dust.

Gharry.

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Gide on Rousseau, in “Dostoyevsky“

“In my opinion Rousseau, from the very beginning of his life, was poisoned, as it were, by Plutarch, though whom he fashioned for himself a somewhat rhetorical and pompous notion of a ‘great man.’ He set up before himself the image of a fancied hero, and his life was one prolonged effort to be like it. He tried hard to be what he wanted to seem, I allow that his painting of his own character may be sincere, but he is ever thinking of his pose, which pride alone dictates.”

Gide on Nietzsche, in “Dostoyevsky“.

“I find it highly interesting to observe and compare in two natures akin in so many respects, Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky, the very different reactions to contact with the Gospels. With Nietzsche the reaction, immediate and marked, was, we may as well admit, jealousy. It does not seem to me possible to understand Nietzsche’s works without taking account of this feeling. Nietzsche was jealous of Jesus Christ, jealous to the point of madness. In writing his Zarathustra, Nietzsche is ever harassed by his desire to write a counterpart to the Gospels. He even adopts at times the form of the Beatitudes the better to make mockery of them. He wrote the Anti-Christ, and in his last work, Ecce Homo, he poses as the adversary triumphant of Him he sought to oust.”

…….“Murphy’s mind pictured itself as a large hollow sphere, hermetically closed to the universe without. This was not an impoverishment, for it excluded nothing that it did not itself contain. Nothing ever had been, was or would be in the universe outside it but was already present as virtual, or actual, or virtual rising into actual, or actual falling into virtual, in the universe inside it.

…….“This did not involve Murphy in the idealist tar. There was the mental fact and there was the physical fact, equally real if not equally pleasant.

…….“He distinguished between the actual and the virtual of his mind, not as between form and the formless yearning for form, but as between that of which he had both mental and physical experience and that of which he had mental experience only. Thus the form of kick was actual, that of caress virtual.

…….“The mind felt its actual part to be above and bright, its virtual beneath and fading into dark, without however connecting this with the ethical yoyo. The mental experience was cut off from the physical experience, the agreement of part of its content with physical fact did not confer worth on that part. It did not function and could not be disposed according to a principle of worth. It was made up of light fading into dark, of above and beneath, but not of good and bad. It contained forms with parallel in another mode and forms without, but not right forms and wrong forms. It felt no issue between its light and dark, no need for its light to devour its dark. The need was now to be in the light, now in the half light, now in the dark. That was all.”

~Chapter 6,Murphy

Caracalla…Caracalla is remembered as one of the most notorious and unpleasant of emperors because of the massacres and persecutions he authorized and instigated throughout the Empire.

foehn, in a foehn of loss entire (Berryman, The Dreamsongs 15) (ω)

Copper sheathing The copper performed very well in protecting the hull from invasion by worm, and in preventing the growth of weed, for when in contact with water, the copper produced a poisonous film, composed mainly of oxychloride, that deterred these marine creatures — scarf joint

voiceless pharyngeal fricative; the ascendancy ; proleptic; florilegium; Born Into This (Bukowski documentary) Francisco de Quevedo. Skylab re-entry. kicky-wicky, Jeff Donnell, “sandy place“, concrete, cement:

Concrete should not be confused with cement, because the term cement refers to the material used to bind the aggregate materials of concrete. Concrete is a combination of a cement and aggregate.

Melville, The Confidence Man (3):

With which exclamations, followed by idle threats against his admonisher, this condign victim to justice hobbles away, as disdaining to hold further argument with such a rabble.

Condign.