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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.
Sobersides — Leyden Jar — Nodes of Ranvier — (oxter)
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 3, 2012
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 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, 2012William 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.
1.Dilation of a blood vessel, as by the action of a nerve or drug.
Ruche
June 18, 2012od. 8.166
June 8, 2012ξειν’, 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, 2012Act 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 20, 2012
oxter; oak of Mamra; terebinth; Chaldea; Zeno of Citium; Paul Metcalf
American legation, Tangier; fastuous ; heteroclitic ; dehisce ; frailing