“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..
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.
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.
1.Dilation of a blood vessel, as by the action of a nerve or drug.
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
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).
etymology “explode“; Paracelsus (1493-1541); Pola and Trieste ;
placket ; Pandora ; apennines / gran sasso; T28; Pain (etym.)
oxter; oak of Mamra; terebinth; Chaldea; Zeno of Citium; Paul Metcalf
American legation, Tangier; fastuous ; heteroclitic ; dehisce ; frailing
“It remains the most recent external conflict to be fought by the UK without any allied states and the only external Argentine war since the 1880s” (Falklands War).
“Idleness is the beginning of all vice and the crown of all virtues” ~ Kafka (Blue Octavo Notebooks) rosette ; herbaceous plant ; forb ;
Claude Lorrain ; Gloria Swanson (What’s My Line) ; Willendorf figure ; Aggsbach
“If I wish to fight against this world, I must fight against its decisively characteristic element, that is, against its transience.” (Kafka, Blue Octavo Notebooks). prothonotary ; Keelhauling ; Rube Goldberg ; Isle of the Cross ;
operation popeye ; firkin ; transplendent; superconducting super collider
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