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March 17, 2014

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Prince Myshkin’s name

March 15, 2014

“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.)

Aspasia

March 14, 2014

William Gaddis, The Recognitions, pp. 939:

As fashions have originated with courtesans throughout the ages, she soon became their arbiter. And since she was, like the better class of whores in ancient Greece, a trained entertainer, no more opprobrium attached to distinguished men visiting her than fell to Socrates visiting Aspasia, and even after she had ruined him, and found herself accused of impiety, the great man appeared at her trial as her advocate, only to find his eloquence to fail him in court: ‘he could only clasp Aspasia to his breast and weep.’

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.

Misereatur

March 13, 2014

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.

March 11, 2014

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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