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“Those ‘record highs’ and ‘record lows’ that the weathermen are always talking about– they’re meaningless now. It’s like comparing pole vaults between athletes using bamboo and those using fiberglass poles, or dash times between athletes who’ve been chewing steroids and those who’ve stuck to Wheaties. They imply a connection between the past and the present which doesn’t exist. The comparison is like hanging Rembrandts next to Warhols; we live in a postnatural world. Thoreau once said he could walk for half an hour and come to ‘some portion of the earth’s surface where man does not stand from one year’s end to an another, and there, consequently, politics are not, for they are but the cigar-smoke of man.’ Now you could walk half a year and not reach such a spot. Politics –our particular way of life, our ideas about how we should live– now blows its smoke over every inch of the globe.” Bill Mckibben, The End of Nature (1988) Page 51.

The Sun: the worshiped sun [1.1.121]; the all-cheering sun [1.1.137]; the all-seeing sun [1.2.95]; It is the east and Juliet is the sun [2.2.3-4]; sun cheers the day and dries the night’s dank dew [2.3.5]; sunbeams [2.5.5]; the garish sun [3.2.25]; a meteor the sun exhales [3.5.13]; “When the sun sets the earth doth drizzle dew” [3.5.127]; “The sun for sorrow will not show its head” [5.3.306].

The Stars: star-crossed lovers [1.epilogue.6]; the earth-tredding stars [1.2.25]; some consequence yet hanging in the stars [1.4.107]; Juliet’s eyes as substitutes for stars [2.2.15]; Romeo should be cut into stars[3.2.22]; defying the stars [5.1.24]; inauspicious stars [5.3.111];

If a gravitational wave passed through you, you’d see one of your arms grow longer than the other. If you were wearing a watch on each wrist, you’d see them tick out of sync.… VOX

At that time, expectations were that the gas would burn out within a few weeks, but it has continued to burn more than four decades after it was set on fire….Darvaza Crater.

The use of improvisation on top of canovaccio enabled the avoidance of censorship because censors cannot censor that which is not written… Canovaccio

(above the glistening backs of cars)

This n-grams viewer graph jibes with my own sense that people are using the word robust a lot more often than they once did. (From latin robustus, literally “as strong as an oak.”)

I was under the vague impression that it was Donald Rumsfeld or the Bush administration that popularized its use, but the graph (which, of course, measures written and not spoken instances of the word) seems to indicate that its meteoric rise began circa 1980.

In a similar vein is the phrase “salacious details” which I recall as having arisen from the Monica Lewinsky investigation. (And, again, Iraq War, ‘embedded.’ — though contrast with ‘embedded journalist.’)

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams [ Keats]

American/ Sacramento River (map) El afán de independencia

pompier, “Un troisième pompier meurt dans les incendies au Portugal” (Monde.)

αι δ’ολολυγη πασαι Αθηνη χειρας ανεσχον.

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ολολυγη, -ης: an ecstatic religious shout of women. (only citation in Cunliffe). ανεχω: hold up, lift up.

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And all the women, crying ecstatically, lifted their hands to Athena.

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Ian Johnston: All the women raised their hands, as they prayed to Athena.

préalablement ressortissant “un ressortissant nippon” lâche le supplice ,Deprisa — el redactó — Medio Ambiente — la petrolera :// salpicár, un perfil,rueda de prensa diaria,en deuil,,,, Having unleashed the most destructive political impulses of his party, he finally fell victim to them… Cantor (Nyt 2014/06/12)

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