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The interesting curtailment of speech to be heard, an audible hyphen, when someone forgets your name mid speech.

Thank you, —

One hears the comma, indicating something is to follow, perhaps a name, then one hears the hyphen, though not anything after it, indicating a sudden change of plan for the speaker.

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This happened twice yesterday. In the first instance, the agent was someone who knew my name very well but was occasionally prone to lapses of recall (“Thank you, –” she had said.) In the second instance, it was someone I’d known for a decade at least, but would rarely see more frequently than once or twice a month. “Thank you, –” she had said, — and it was then that it struck me how very different from “thank you.” “thank you, –” would sound.

(Maybe catalexis would be appropriate to compare here.)

“The sophistry that undid me is common to the
majority of men, who deplore their lack of strength
when it is already too late to make use of it. Virtue
is only difficult through our own fault. If we chose
always to be wise we should rarely need to be
virtuous. But inclinations which we could easily
overcome irresistibly attract us. We give in
to slight temptations and minimize the danger.
We fall insensibly into dangerous situations,
from which we could easily have safe-guarded
ourselves, but from which we cannot withdraw
without heroic efforts which appall us. So
finally, as we tumble into the abyss, we
ask God why he has made us so feeble.
But, in spite of ourselves, He replies
through our consciences: ‘I have made
you too feeble to climb out of the
pit, because I made you strong
enough not to fall in.'”
Rousseau, Confessions,
Book II.

Answer is yes according to CDC:

You should restrict contact with pets and other animals while you are sick with COVID-19, just like you would around other people. Although there have not been reports of pets or other animals becoming sick with COVID-19, it is still recommended that people sick with COVID-19 limit contact with animals until more information is known about the virus.

However, they also say:

There is no reason to think that any animals including pets in the United States might be a source of infection with this new coronavirus. To date, CDC has not received any reports of pets or other animals becoming sick with COVID-19. At this time, there is no evidence that companion animals including pets can spread COVID-19. However, since animals can spread other diseases to people, it’s always a good idea to wash your hands after being around animals.

Part II, Chapter 20
(Don Quixote, Ormsby translation)

“He preaches well who lives well,” said Sancho, “and I know no more theology than that.”

“Nor need you,” said Don Quixote, “but I cannot conceive or make out how it is that, since the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, you who are more afraid of a lizard than of God, know so much.”

PARTE II, Capítulos 20

—Bien predica quien bien vive —respondió Sancho—, y yo no sé otras tologías.

—Ni las has menester —dijo don Quijote—. Pero yo no acabo de entender ni alcanzar cómo siendo el principio de la sabiduría el temor de Dios, tú, que temes más a un lagarto que a Él, sabes tanto.

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Eumenides 984-987 (Smyth):

χάρματα δ᾽ ἀντιδιδοῖεν
κοινοφιλεῖ διανοίᾳ,
καὶ στυγεῖν μιᾷ φρενί:
πολλῶν γὰρ τόδ᾽ ἐν βροτοῖς ἄκος.

Le soleil ni la mort ne se peuvent regarder fixement.

Niether sun nor death may be looked fixedly at. [*]

Dvořák’s transcription of the song of the scarlet tanager (top) and the appearance of the song in the third movement of the quartet.