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Acktober

3 Tareme/tsurime in anime 4 Veni vidi vici is a tricolon. 5 TIL: Abstentious and cukoloris 6 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 12 sub Iove frigido - under cold Jupiter emotions are sub sile...

Septender

1 Anemic Cinema by Marcel Duchamp. Ray Bradbury and John Huston wrote the screenplay for Moby Dick (1956). 3 Eric Idle parodied Paul McCartney in The Rutles – fitting for a Monty Python. George Best was alluded to as El Beatle :D Mythopoeia by JRR Tolkien – meta 4 William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and Adam West were in The Outer Limits (Cold Hands, Warm Heart, I, Robot and The Invisible Enemy, respectively) before becoming Cap Kirk, Spock and Batman. 7 TIL that Easter Island is antipodal to India – specifically, Desert National Park near Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. Giancarlo Esposito b-boyed in Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing! 13 Embarking on Against The Day, today. Ennui has reared up again; irritated shrugs have become de-facto responses. 15 Myst the video game was influenced by Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island…I recall playing it very long ago, the surroundings do not spring clearly to mind. The infinitive has been split. 19 Lucid dreaming nights 25 I have finally encountered...