Acktober

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Tareme/tsurime in anime


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Veni vidi vici is a tricolon.

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TIL: Abstentious and cukoloris


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Cliometrcis and terpsichorean

11 – Latin day, somehow from lexemes
Sub verbo/voce – (dictionary) under the heading
Sapienti sat – word to the wise is enough
Sapere aude – dare to know
Festina lente – make haste slowly

Running across quite a few Virgil/Aeneid quotes; had naturally progressed to it after the Homeric epics (Iliad/Odyssey)

Sum summarum – all in all

Faustus: Que sera, sera

Sic et non – yes and no
Ad astra – another Virgil-ism, to the stars
Sic vita est – such is life, c’est la vie in French//Pulp Fiction shout out
Silentium est aureum - -silence is golden
Sine – without; not the mathematical function though it fits for me
Sine qua non – with condition, a necessary condition
Sol lucet omnibus - -sun shines on all
specialia generalibus derogant - special departs from general

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sub Iove frigido - under cold Jupiter
emotions are sub silentio

ablatives

suum cuique – to each their own

Seems appropriate that I know tabula rasa as I begin ‘T’.

Brachistochrone curve – fastest descent

Temet nosce – know thyself; of course, inevitable to shout out to The Matrix’s Oracle scene.
tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis - the times are changing, and we change in them
fugit inreparabile tempus – time flies (irreparably? More Virgil)
terminat hora diem; terminat auctor opus - The hour finishes the day; the author finishes his work; more Faust to the end.

Came across Oliver Gogarty, the inspiration behind Buck Mulligan in Ulysses, from ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis (where you are worth nothing, there you will wish for nothing) in Beckett’s Murphy.

usus est magister optimus – practice makes perfect – or as near as can be, or as near as you get satisfied with
vacate et scire - Be still and know; so apt for these ennui-filled days.
Veni vidi vici was used by Caesar for the Battle of Zela (Turkey)
vera causa - true cause (is it an oversight or is the link for vera causa a Self Demonstrating Article, as TVTropes puts it?

Versus means towards, not against (which is really referring to adversus)

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vince malum bono - overcome evil with good; BCS Shimla (where I got my scar circa 1995) has this as their motto

syntagma – arrangement (cl. Gr.) > constitution (mod. Gr.) + a public square in Athens

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Vincit qui se vincit – he conquers who conquers himself

Richard III’s “my kingdom for a horse” is paraphrased in Asterix in Spain; Richard II is in the First Folio of Shakespeare, which is the last tab open in my other Chrome window. Spirals, of varying radii.

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Tomas Transtromer (Nobel for Lit, 2011) went to Bhopal in the aftermath of the 1984 tragedy.

Mono no aware, Japanese, not to be assumed English despite the phonetic similarity, means ‘the pathos of things’.

Lineament – a distinctive feature; loosely, visage

Samizdat – publishing banned works of creativity

Nudnik – a bore, AKA people I avoid

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Almost inevitably, a Latin quote I ran across this week appears in Asterix and the Banquet: Victrix causa diis placuit, sed victa catoni.

Omphalokepsis

I’m not sure if I have previously noted the reference to the Upanishads in Ulysses, so I shall note it again, to be reminded of the spiral-connectedness of all things past, present and future. They say history repeats itself, I agree: only the spirals vary unexpectedly and unpredictably.

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Agenbite of inwit – inner wit bites again (and again)

Omphalos – spirals, interminable

Nietzsche is invoked.

Paraprosdokian

At long last, off to the Himalayas! 

[To be resumed]



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Ran across Pearl Jam (Jeremy) on TV Tropes. As good a place as any to resume this blog post. Also, next to-do is the synopsis and chapter outline; will develop them in frenzy mode when aptly minded. Patience…and credit card debt lolz.



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Aqua Teen Hunger Force, recalling a conversation during the recent trip to The Blue Sheep in Tirthan valley, Himachal.



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