January 2009
23 posts
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Flim, a Dresden-based electronic composer, has put...
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“‘For,’ says he, ‘it’s being ground to bits in a slow...”
– Bleak House
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Book get!
Finished: The Gone-Away World Verdict: Interesting but scattershot. Tangential and creative in an uncontrolled way. Could have been 20% shorter, but still very good.
Starting: Bleak House
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Words I never looked up from "The Three...
casuist - apparently one whose reasoning is suspect or false
catafalque - no idea
sbirri - some sort of authority in France, possibly Huguenot-related
exordium - an introductory or explanatory passage?
caparison - part of a horse’s decoration
caracole - something horses do
fauteuil - has to do with fainting, but may be furniture as well
carbuncle - a jewel, if I remember...
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Max Richter - Horizon Variations
from the album...
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“Let the man who speaks evil of Alexander not merely bring forward those passages...”
– Arrian
Don't forget to patch your StarCraft! →
Fixed a few bugs there for ya. Wait… what year is this? How long have I been asleep?
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Words I've had to learn to read the first few...
vaticination - prophecy or foreknowledge (not what it sounds like)
heteroclite - irregular or deviant (I should have guessed)
declension - a decline or downward slope (literal or abstract)
cervantic - (not in any dictionary, but its meaning is clear if subtle)
panegyric - elaborate oration or praise ( I knew that)
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“There was a rustle of chirruping sparrows in the green lacquer leaves of the...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard.”
– Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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Arthur & Yu - Lion’s Mouth
I’ve...
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“The silver Swan, who living had no Note,
when Death approached, unlocked...”
– English madrigal by Orlando Gibbons
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One of the last tracks I put together before my...
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“He was at once a devil and a multitude, a charnel-house and a pageant. Lit by...”
– H.P. Lovecraft, The Shunned House