taiga ; condyle ; “swayback”

The 42nd Parallel:

The brakeman said they’d have to get the body off the train. They laid him down flat in the ditch beside the ballast with his hat over his face. Mac asked the brakeman if he had a spade so that they could bury him. so that the buzzards wouldn’t get him, but he said no, the gandywalkers would find him and bury him. He took Mac back to the caboose and gave him a drink and asked him all about how the old man had died.

“Gandy dancer” as wiki has it (here), a railway worker responsible for track maintenance. The “ballast” is the bed of gravel they lay the track on. (wiki).

Apparently the earliest use of the English word “kick.” Book of Acts 26:14 (King James):

And when wee were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking vnto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It is hard for thee to kicke against the prickes.

The Greek, as I have it, for the last sentence is:

σκληρον σοι προς κεντρα λακτιζειν

where κεντρον (n.) is “sting, goad”, and λακτιζω is “kick.” On a speculative note, I wonder if technically this could be taken as an infinitive-with-accusative-subject construction, which would yield a translation more like “Difficulty kicks you with its goads” (the “with” arising from προς + accusative] though it’d be hard to explain the dative personal pronoun in that case.

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…………………………………………………….…….r…..a world in
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……………………………………………………….colter ….<Geoduck
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“In the Moscow Gazette of November 5, 1867, Dostoevsky had read about the case of a peasant Balabanov who had killed the artisan Suslov. They were drinking and taking a bite together, and Suslov showed the other his silver watch. When Suslov prepared to set up the samovar, Balabanov took a kitchen knife from the table, approached Suslov, and, with the words ‘Bless, O Lord; forgive me for Christ’s sake,’ slit his throat. Balabanov was a peasant of Yaroslav Province, Myshkin district. Such is the origin of Prince Myshkin’s name.”

Dostoevsky His Life and Work, Konstantin Mochulsky (trans. Michael A. Minihan)…. Myshkinsky District (Also, a footnote mentions that mysh is the Russian word for mouse.)

William Gaddis, The Recognitions, pp. 939:

Wikipedia:

Aspasia (ca. 470 BC –ca. 400 BC) (Ἀσπασία) was a Milesian woman who was famous for her involvement with the Athenian statesman Pericles. Very little is known about the details of her life. She spent most of her adult life in Athens, and she may have influenced Pericles and Athenian politics. She is mentioned in the writings of Plato, Aristophanes, Xenophon, and other authors of the day.

William Gaddis, The Recognitions, pp. 838:

There was silence. The shadows on the screen moved, and then Father Martin’s voice took up, a monody hardly breaking the reciprocal sounds which bound the ship in motion, no more pressing or importunate, and no more faltering than the movement of the ship itself into the darkness. Bells sounded somewhere, clear tones which penetrated the misereatur, hard separate sounds which signaled the Latin syllables with consequence: Stanley was counting them.

Century Dictionary:

1.In the Roman Catholic and other Latin liturgies, the first part of the public form of absolution, following the Confiteor in the mass. It is also used at prime and complin, and, with the singular pronoun (tui), in sacramental absolution.

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T,…….joinder…….,,,……..M
i……vesicle,,,……i
v,….……………….double,,,…..b
a…..……………compoundT,….a
T,,………..pendulum
cathexis……..catalectic,…e
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Denique Coelum–“Heaven at last”
Melville family motto
(Parker)

precatory pleonasm Luvah pinchbeck

spile radome
lagan graben graben

Greek Anthology Vol. I, Paton (6.77):

Οἰνοπότας Ξενοφῶν κενεὸν πίθον ἄνθετο, Βάκχε
δέχνυσο δ᾽ εὐμενέως: ἄλλο γὰρ οὐδὲν ἔχει.

ταῦτα μὲν τοίνυν ἐπὶ πλέον ἐξήχθημεν εἰπεῖν: ὃ δὲ βουλόμεθα γνῶναι τόδ᾽ ἐστίν, ὡς ἄρα δεινόν τι καὶ ἄγριον καὶ ἄνομον ἐπιθυμιῶν εἶδος ἑκάστῳ ἔνεστι, καὶ πάνυ δοκοῦσιν ἡμῶν ἐνίοις μετρίοις εἶναι: τοῦτο δὲ ἄρα ἐν τοῖς ὕπνοις γίγνεται ἔνδηλον. εἰ οὖν τι δοκῶ λέγειν καὶ συγχωρεῖς, ἄθρει.

Charlie Bowers ; long tail ; testerep ; crannock ; reply ; W.R. Grace

aversation ; Nicolás Gómez Dávila ; sporades ; cellulitus ; gamine

Carnation revolution / colonial war ; Dryas ; turing test ; ;adjuvant

In 1917 Alexander Graham Bell wrote “[The unchecked burning of fossil fuels] would have a sort of greenhouse effect”, and “The net result is the greenhouse becomes a sort of hot-house…..” Greenhouse effect

The Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus is the oldest known medical text of any kindKahun Papyrus

Warp:

To move a vessel by hauling on a line that is fastened to or around a piling, anchor, or pier.

oed –Connection between “turning” and “throwing” is perhaps in the notion of rotating the arm in the act of throwing.

* Jean Arthur; consentaneous; Carthusian (“Stat crux dum volvitur orbis“); Rule of St. Benedict; Arnold Geulincx; infarct; climacteric; congius .92 gallons, (a hemina is a twelfth part of a congius). St. Benedict:

“Every one hath his proper gift from God, one after this manner and another after that” (1 Cor 7:7). It is with some hesitation, therefore, that we determine the measure of nourishment for others. However, making allowance for the weakness of the infirm, we think one hemina of wine a day is sufficient for each one.”

zizek essay . . . Khan academy . . . Mercury Theater on Air . . . Hartley Coleridge sonnets (“Oakling and Oak“) . . . England in 1819 . . . Ten Best Films of 1921 …

τῇ ῥα παραδραμέτην φεύγων ὃ δ᾽ ὄπισθε διώκων:
πρόσθε μὲν ἐσθλὸς ἔφευγε, δίωκε δέ μιν μέγ᾽ ἀμείνων
καρπαλίμως, ἐπεὶ οὐχ ἱερήϊον οὐδὲ βοείην
ἀρνύσθην, ἅ τε ποσσὶν ἀέθλια γίγνεται ἀνδρῶν,
ἀλλὰ περὶ ψυχῆς θέον Ἕκτορος ἱπποδάμοιο.

Iliad, 22. 157-161; Butler