September 2010
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“If that severe doom of Synesius be true, “It is a greater offense to steal...”
– Anatomy of Melancholy
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August 2010
41 posts
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Bedhead - “The Present” Transaction De...
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Vocabulary: The Anatomy Of Ant-Bears Edition
ludeful: no definition. It appears to have appeared only once in history. (poss. lewdful) mediatized: to annex a state or territory while preserving some of its ruler’s rights franked: marked in such a way as to secure transmission or passage gobonated: in heraldry, equal divisions forming squares (gobbets) foliot: a mischevious woodland creature in Italian folklore exornation: ornamentation...
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“Thou may’st be searched for polish’d words and verse By flippant...”
– Anatomy of Melancholy
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“Mr. Gammon marked the progress of the Earl’s feelings with the greatest...”
– Ten Thousand A-Year
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Silent Kids - “Sgt. Dexter Pt. II”...
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“…those visitors to forlorn houses, about whom you may not be familiar, who...”
– The Anatomy of Melancholy
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Transmission UVB-76 Aug.23.2010 9.32AM PST...
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Camera Obscura - “Other Towns And...
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“At these mysteriously significant symbols, however, Mr. Titmouse, though quite...”
– Ten Thousand A-Year
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Fanboyism as existential distress →
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Stereolab - “Tomorrow Is Already Here”...
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“But he had long been secretly fired with the glory of Hercules, whom he held in...”
– Plutarch, Life of Theseus
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Plaid (ft. Bjork) - “Lilith” Not For...
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“Yet man dies not while the world, at once his mother and his monument, remains....”
– King Solomon’s Mines
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“The dense, unvisited woods on those inaccessible slopes seemed to harbour alien...”
– H.P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer In Darkness
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Vocabulary: Unrepentant Lappet Edition
morganatic: a marriage in which title or property will not be shared or bequeathed lappet: a small flap or loose piece hanging from a piece of clothing; also, a wattle supererogate: to do more, or perform better, than is required or expected vedette: a mounted or mobile advance unit posted close to enemy lines megrims: low spirits, a migraine, or some other transitive discomfort unregenerate:...
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“It crept on all fours, but when it reached the place where the king sat it rose...”
– King Solomon’s Mines
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“Listen! what is life? It is a feather; it is the seed of the grass, blown hither...”
– Umbopa, King Solomon’s Mines
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Peach Pit - “An Open House Where Horror Is...
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“Socrates: Let us begin, then, with a picture of our citizens’ manner of...”
– The Republic
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“By the time our “scherm” was finished the moon was coming up, and...”
– King Solomon’s Mines
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