March 2010
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“Your case is unique in the annals of crime. We know not whom you are, whence you...”
– Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
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The Ivytree - “The Book Of Job” Winged...
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“He helped himself to some more marmalade, and poured out another cup of coffee....”
– Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson
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“Every night I would strut at the bar, in the red light and dust of that earthly...”
– Camus, The Fall
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“Despairing of love and of chastity, I at last bethought myself of debauchery, a...”
– Camus, The Fall
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Crime in Choir - “Women of Reduction”...
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Tulsa Drone - “Chiaroscuro” No Wake
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“Adeimantus: But if a single state amasses the wealth of all the others, will not...”
– Plato, The Republic
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WatchInteresting talk. I don’t agree with him entirely, but it is an idea that needs to be considered.
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“He had an execrable eye — full of insolence and sensuality.”
– Samuel Warren, Ten Thousand A-Year
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Vocabulary: Sponging the Guns Edition
syndic: a representative for a corporation or university; also, certain civil magistrates pyx: a container for the eucharist; also, a container for specimen coins at a mint lipsanotheca: the container inside a reliquary which contains the relic mora: a unit of time equal to a short syllable (a poetic metric) autochthonous: born of the earth; sprung from the ground inenubilable: indistinct; unable...
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Jason Molina - “Pyramid Electric Co.”...
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“The principal figures before her mind’s eye were — Tittlebat Titmouse,...”
– Samuel Warren, Ten Thousand A-Year
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“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were,...”
– Camus, The Fall
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Hark a Vagrant, brilliant as usual →
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Skygreen Leopards - “Parallel shadows (part...
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Black Forest/Black Sea - “These...
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“At a distance, she might have been a wraith; or a breeze made visible; a vagrom...”
– Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson
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“When they were called rebels, they were called so for no other reason than this,...”
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Christians boycotting Glenn Beck →
“It is not enough simply to help the poor, one must address the structures that keep them that way. Standing up for the rights of the poor is not being a Nazi, it’s being Christian. And Communist, as Mr. Beck suggests? It’s hard not to think of the retort of the great apostle of social justice, Dom Helder Camara, archbishop of Recife, ‘When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When...
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Vocabulary: Echoed Ebullitions Edition
deliquium: chemically, dissolution into air or liquid. otherwise, a swooning or faint mood ebullition: boiling up or pouring out, either emotionally, physically, or linguistically peripety: corruption of peripeteia, a sudden turn of events, usually in literature bruit: (noun) a din or loud noise. (verb) to voice loudly or spread rumor trumpery: showy, deceptive, or nonsensical (from tromper, to...
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“You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a...”
– Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson
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“Be they never so Withered, no Milk-Maiden grieves to lay herself down among...”
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Comets On Fire - “Dogwood Rust”...
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Vocabulary: Golden Cloud of Silver Clangour...
dulia: a theological term signifying the honor paid to the saints (as opposed to god) lazaret: a small ship, room or building used for quarantine (or simply set aside) disseizin: wrongful dispossession of one in the possession of real property surplice: a loose-fitting garment with fabric crossing diagonally in front quillon: one of the two protrusions forming the crossbar of a sword opetide:...
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“…those eyes which hawks, that nose which eagles, had often envied.”
– Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson
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“…for so it happens that, in this country, the more hideous the crime, the...”
– Samuel Warren, Ten Thousand A-Year
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Tanakh - “Stereognosis” Villa...
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Beach House - “Wedding Bell”...
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“Then, in the evenings, there were theatres, great and small, the various...”
– Samuel Warren, Ten Thousand A-Year
