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October 7, 2012

orchidaceous Italiotes Ludwig Feuerbach bosky Mount Pisgah brattle

October 5, 2012

Asafoetida. William Faulkner, American Writer (pp.50):

As a desperate solution, a home remedy was tried. With a solution of gummy asafetida, Sallie Murry made her son vomit, and up came the bullet.

SobersidesLeyden JarNodes of Ranvier — (oxter)

September 12, 2012

Chidiock TichborneBabington plotcatenaryPashminatelicitypolytetrafluoroethyline . .. cothon bergère

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………………………….Brave” in Tempest, Odyssey 8.166,

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August 31, 2012

As You Like It:

I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm, and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes graze and my lambs suck

August 30, 2012

Adductor Hallucis muscle. chevy bowtie. Boer. prebend ; pawl. Drip line ; chrome. Beckford’s folly ; préciser. hurricane ; viccisity. rhumb line.

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……………….Prairie Dawn
……………….(Willa Cather)

…………A crimson fire that vanquishes the stars;
…………A pungent odor from the dusty sage;
…………A sudden stirring of the huddled herds;
…………A breaking through of the distant table-lands;
…………Through purple mists ascending, and the flare
…………Of water-ditches silver in the light;
…………A swift bright lance hurled low across the world;
…………A sudden sickness for the hills of home.

August 22, 2012

Nicéphore Niépce; cash/ cashier ; Nerva – Antonine dynasty; tardigrade:

Tardigrades are able to survive in extreme environments that would kill almost any other animal. Some can survive temperatures of close to absolute zero, temperatures as high as 151 °C, 1,000 times more radiation than other animals, and almost a decade without water.

monopsony; sinking of the Rainbow Warrior; floribunda; backwardation

August 17, 2012

Chincha Islands War Chincha Islands Chincha people Chinchilla

Puerperal fever puerperium peach complex fire gish gallop stoat

August 3, 2012

St. Benedict:

As there is a harsh and evil zeal which separateth from God and leadeth to hell, so there is a virtuous zeal which separateth from vice and leadeth to God and life everlasting.

Let the monks, therefore, practice this zeal with most ardent love; namely, that in honor they forerun one another (cf Rom 12:10). Let them bear their infirmities, whether of body or mind, with the utmost patience; let them vie with one another in obedience. Let no one follow what he thinketh useful to himself, but rather to another. Let them practice fraternal charity with a chaste love.

Let them fear God and love their Abbot with sincere and humble affection; let them prefer nothing whatever to Christ, and may He lead us all together to life everlasting.

Systole. decorticate. metis. limerence. King Lear (1983).

July 28, 2012

a DNA study suggests that all the domesticated cattle originate from a group of 80 wild aurochs. Those animals lived in Iran 10,500 years ago Aurochs

anterior nares; Enceladus (moon of Saturn); Enceladus (child of Gaia); inspissate; torsade; “there is no need, finally,/ to inspissate the corded torsades/ of his loon voice” (Ashbery); deictic.

July 20, 2012

as I think of it, this same ατασθαλω appears toward the beginning of the Odyssey (1.7-9):

……………αυτων γαρ σφετερησιν ατασθαλιησιν ολοντον,
……………νηπιοι, οι κατα βους Υπεριονος Ηελιοι
……………ησθιον

(for in their own recklessness they were destroyed,/ the fools who ate the cattle of Hyperion Helios) (x)

July 19, 2012

Caïque Acéphale
linklog antinomian
stank Manasseh
Jaime Bravo preterite
Jacobo Árbenz

July 12, 2012

“Many historians have noted the coincidence that the last western emperor bore the names of both Romulus, the legendary founder and first king of Rome, and Augustus, its first emperor” Romulus Augustulus.

Odoacer “Odoacer is the earliest ruler of Italy for whom an autograph of any of his legal acts has survived to the current day.”

Anti-Injunction Act. Helium reserve, Charadriiformes…..
batten, spital, “Athens of Africa“, morris dance, c-print..

July 3, 2012

walking meditation, oxford comma, Henryk Wieniawski, James Chalmers, maladdress, sockle / plinth, seriatum, lumpectomy, savage,

“Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition.”

–Samuel Beckett, Molloy.

Vasodilating

June 26, 2012

William Gaddis, The Recognitions, pp. 931:

The Nicotinic acid was the best, wasn’t it, in spite of its evanescent reactions, the tingling, itching, burning of the skin, dizziness, faintness, sensations of warmth… bend over now Gordon… gastric distress, cutaneous flushing, the increased gastro-intestinal motility… ah… mmmp, there we are Gordon. You’ll feel better in no time. It’s due to a vasodilating action.

American Heritage:

1.Dilation of a blood vessel, as by the action of a nerve or drug.

Ruche

June 18, 2012

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, 377:

but I knew I was going to Centerboro and no further, and kept right on going there, on road and through country now that I knew by heart, raising a large ruche of orange dust behind me […]

Ruche. (wiki)

od. 8.166

June 8, 2012

ξειν’, ου καλον εειπες· ατασθαλω ανδρι εοικας.

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ατασθαλω: reckless, careless, ungoverned of consequences.

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Stranger you do not speak well. You seem a reckless man

‘Brave’ in The Tempest

June 8, 2012

Act 1: “Oh I have suffered with those I saw suffer! A brave vessel, who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her, dash’d all to pieces. O, the cry did knock against my heart!” [1.2.5-8]; “My brave spirit!” [1.2.206] (Prospero to Ariel); “It carries a brave form” [1.2.414] (Miranda of Ferdinand); the Duke of Milan and his brave son/ the Duke of Milan and his more braver daughter [1.2.439-443] (Ferdinand with Prospero).

Act 2: “You are gentlemen of brave mettle; you would lift the moon out of her sphere, if she would continue in it five weeks without changing.”[2.2.183-185] (Gonzalo of Antonio and Sebastian); “That’s a brave god and bears celestial liquor” [2.2.117] (Caliban of Stephano); “O brave monster! Lead the way” [2.186] (Stephano of Caliban).

Act 3: “Brave monster” to have eyes set in a tail [3.2.11] (Trinculo); “he has brave utensils –for so he calls them– which, whehn he has a house, he’ll deck withal” [3.2.96] (Caliban of Prospero); “Is it so brave a lass?” [3.2.104] (Stephano to Caliban of Miranda); “Ay, lord; she will become thy bed, I warrant, and bring thee forth brave brood” [3.2.106]; “This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing” [3.2.146]; “Bravely the figure of this harpy has thou performed, my Ariel; a grace it had devouring” [3.3.83-84];

Act 4:

Act 5: “O, wonder! how many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world that has such people in ‘t!” [5.1.183-186] (Miranda); “Our ship– which, but three glasses since, we gave out split– Is tight and yare and bravely rigg’d as when we first put out to see” [5.1.226] (Boatswain); “Bravely, my diligence. Thou shalt be free” [5.1.243] (Prospero to Ariel); “O Setebos, these be brave spirits indeed!” [5.1.263] (Caliban).

June 2, 2012

etymology “explode“; Paracelsus (1493-1541); Pola and Trieste ;

placket ; Pandora ; apennines / gran sasso; T28; Pain (etym.)

May 25, 2012

cénacle ; lithia water ; incuse ; Washington Merry-go-round; par contre

ludibrium; Ushers Island ; Stonybatter ; Elagabalus ; capitation; Jimma

May 20, 2012

oxter; oak of Mamra; terebinth; Chaldea; Zeno of Citium; Paul Metcalf

American legation, Tangier; fastuous ; heteroclitic ; dehisce ; frailing