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March 11, 2014

T,,,……..Sneak Enthymeme,,,…M
,,……..Akashic records….remoulade,,,……..
T,…….joinder…….,,,……..M
i……vesicle,,,……i
v,….……………….double,,,…..b
a…..……………compoundT,….a
T,,………..pendulum
cathexis……..catalectic,…e
I,.catalysis……..catenary
catholic……..cathedral)..z
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Denique Coelum–“Heaven at last”
Melville family motto
(Parker)

March 10, 2014

precatory pleonasm Luvah pinchbeck

March 10, 2014

spile radome
lagan graben graben

March 7, 2014

Greek Anthology Vol. I, Paton (6.77):

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

March 7, 2014

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.

March 6, 2014

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

March 6, 2014

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

March 6, 2014

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

Warp (nautical use)

March 5, 2014

Warp:

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

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

March 5, 2014

* 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.”

March 5, 2014

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

March 3, 2014

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

March 3, 2014

“You Idlers! You wasters!
You fashion plates! You sit and sip
your wine while the naked back
of an unprotesting soldier of Christ
is lashed with the whip!

“You — who boast of the
blood of Aragorn and the
inheritance of Castile —
make merry while, all
about you, injustice
seethes!

“The heaven kissed hills
of your native California
swarm with the sentinels
of oppression! Are your
pulses dead? Thank God
mine is not — and I pledge
you my blood’s as noble
as the best!

“No force that tyranny
could bring would dare
oppose us — once united.
Our country’s out of joint.
It is for us cabalieros, and
us alone, to set it right!”

~Mark of Zorro~

March 2, 2014

‘They build as if they are to live forever; they live as if they are to die tomorrow.'(Megarians as reported by St. Jerome); fasciculation, “desal“, deckle, instauration, fetation, couvade, scaup, acathisia, tergiversation

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March 1, 2014

Once the recipient of a cheque (the payee) deposits it in his account, his bank immediately credits (increases) the payee’s account, assuming that the payer’s bank will ultimately send the funds to cover the cheque. Until the payer’s bank actually sends the funds, both the payer and the payee have the “same” money in both of their accounts…. float

February 28, 2014

The word “silhouette” derives from the name of Étienne de Silhouette, a French finance minister who, in 1759, was forced by France’s credit crisis during the Seven Years War to impose severe economic demands upon the French people, particularly the wealthy. Because of de Silhouette’s austere economies, his name became synonymous with anything done or made cheaply and so with these outline portraits. Prior to the advent of photography, silhouette profiles cut from black card were the cheapest way of recording a person’s appearance…. silhouette

February 27, 2014

In later tellings he eventually turned into a cicada, eternally living, but begging for deathTithonus

February 26, 2014

By the late 1920s, Garnett was frail, white-haired, and half-blind. She retired from translating after the publication in 1934 of Three Plays by Turgenev. After her husband’s death in 1937, she became quite reclusive. She developed a heart condition, with attendant breathlessness, and in her last years had to walk with crutches…. Constance Garnett

Iliad 19, 101-102

February 25, 2014

κέκλυτέ μευ πάντές τε θεοὶ πᾶσαί τε θέαιναι,
ὄφρ᾽ εἴπω τά με θυμὸς ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ἀνώγει.

Butler.

February 24, 2014

Sir Abu Nu’ayr is almost perfectly round at a diameter of four kilometers, with a one kilometer long extension at its southeast end, making the shape of the whole island appear as a drop… Sir Abu Nu’ayr