February 2010
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Vocabulary: shadow of the gonfalon edition
anacreontic: after the style of Anacreon, a Greek poet fond of women and drinking tholus: a circular building with a conical or vaulted roof (Greek) architrave: the lowermost molding at the top of a colonnade gonfalon: a standard or banner hung from a crossbar caique: a rowboat or small sailing ship fiacre: a small, four-wheeled carriage pardine: a leopard or panther nigrescent: not quite black
January 2010
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“For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being...”
– Socrates, The Apology
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Sybarite - “The Fourth Day” Nonument
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“Pyramids are pyramids in vales.”
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“Kate colored suddenly and violently, and her heart beat; but, sweet soul! she...”
– Were the denizens of Victorian England really such gifted blushers that they could do so violently and suddenly, and to the instant notice of everyone present?
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Fred Astaire - “Steppin’ Out With My...
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“His appointment book lists no visitors for this darkling hour… nor would...”
– Doc Savage: Hell-Reapers at the Heart of Paradise
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“They say that these shadows of morning fade as the sun brightens into noonday;...”
– Reveries of a Bachelor
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Real Estate - “Beach Comber” Real...
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“Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.”
– Samuel Warren, Ten Thousand A-Year
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“You may regard the above document in the light of a deadly and destructive...”
– Samuel Warren, Ten Thousand A-Year
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“—here his horse, whose sides were constantly being galled by the spurs of its...”
– Samuel Warren, Ten Thousand A-Year
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Tarantula - “Rail” Tarantula
If...
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“I. Where, O where
Hath gentle Peace found rest?
Builds she in bower of lady...”
– Samuel Warren, “Peace,” from Ten Thousand A-Year
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Sleep Whale - “Summer Sick”...
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New Flickr set →
Very good.
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“From the silence and deep peace of this saintly summer night — from the pathetic...”
– Thomas de Quincey, The Vision of Sudden Death
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Mice Parade - “Logic (Parts 1 &...
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“The divisions between all the different stripes of desperado and the regular...”
– Mark Helprin, Winter’s Tale
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“Ah! what a vulgar thing does courage seem when we see nations buying and selling...”
– Thomas de Quincey, The Vision of Sudden Death
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Tarentel - “Ursa Minor, Ursa Major”...
Don't fight it →
Just spend the rest of the night reading Charlie Brooker’s columns. Probably the only person I’d submit to reading regularly with no screening.
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