Listen to a chilling tale from Latin class at an all-boys school in England. Yews—Taxus—symbolic of long life, are plentiful in San Francisco. We had two at the house. In a 1929 essay, James stated:
“Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view, I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it, and there is much blatancy in a lot of recent stories. “They drag in sex, too, which is a fatal mistake; sex is tiresome enough in the novels; in a ghost story, or as the backbone of a ghost story, I have no patience with it. “At the same time don’t let us be mild and drab. Malevolence and terror, the glare of evil faces, ‘the stony grin of unearthly malice’, pursuing forms in darkness, and ‘long-drawn, distant screams’, are all in place, and so is a modicum of blood, shed with deliberation and carefully husbanded; the weltering and wallowing that I too often encounter merely recall the methods of M.G. Lewis.” To be sentient is to be able to think of oneself or to perceive or have feelings. Is AI at Google sentient? Engineers and ethicists disagree. I have seen AI when I write Gmail. “Originally, the terms ‘morning star’ and ‘evening star’ applied only to the brightest planet of all, Venus. It is far more dazzling than any of the actual stars in the sky and does not appear to twinkle. Instead, it glows with a steady, silvery light.
“The fact that Venus was a wandering star soon became obvious to ancient sky watchers, who noticed its shifting back and forth from the early hours of the eastern morning sky to the western sky in the early evening. Nicolas Camille Flammarion, a noted French astronomer in the late 19th and early 20th century, referred to Venus as ‘The Shepherd's Star.’” triviaripple.com For Catholics, Mary is the Morning Star – Stellam Matutinam. In SF, there was a grammar school called Morning Star. It vanished. English
“There’s a rule for the order of adjective in English that almost everybody follows without realizing it. It’s called order force, and it goes as follows: opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose. “If that sounds hard to wrap your head around, think of a pet. You would refer to your beloved tabby who’s been getting on in years as 'my old orange cat' rather than 'my orange old cat,' which sounds strange and somehow wrong even if you’re not sure why. “Order force is why, just as it’s the reason My Big Fat Greek Wedding wasn’t called My Greek Fat Big Wedding — the latter conveys the same information but seeing it in that order just doesn’t feel right.” Interestingfacts.com Latin Although Latin word order can be very flexible, typical Latin word order generally follows the pattern Subject-Object-Verb (SOV). English word order is Subject-Verb-Object (SVO), but English poetry is more flexible. A Latin adjective can go before or after a noun. God as Architect/Builder/Geometer/Craftsman
The Frontispiece of Bible Moralisee, c. 1220-1230 illumination on parchment Austrian National Library I see this little jaunt as a metaphor for the Church: loudmouth humans in the distance and a leader cat and its loyal followers, who are called a brood when on land. I learned today that my brilliant student, age 9, has read H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), author of fiction classified as weird, science, fantasy, and horror. I said, "You never told me that." His answer, "You never asked."
About 500 glaciers out of 200,000 have disappeared in the last 50 years.
500/200,00 = .0025 .0025 X 100 = 0.25% 0.25% = 1/4 of 1% This is a video about birds, bird lovers, scientists, miners, workers, and hunters, not tree huggers. In the Montana 2020 election, Trump won 57%, Biden 41%.
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