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Larrup: (v.) To hit or beat. (n.) Backtalk, rudeness.

Difference between an engine and a motor seems to be roughly that the former creates, through a chemical reaction, the energy by which it’s powered, while the latter relies on a pre-existing power source, like electricity.

Surprised to come across acidulous instead of acid in a book from the 1960’s.

Agamemnon, 88-91

“The rains had come, the rains had gone, and the sun was back on its throne like an absolute monarch kept off it for a week by his subjects’ barricades, and now reigning once again, choleric but under constitutional restraint.” The Leopard, Di Lampedusa.