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21 And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife, garments of skins, and clothed them. 22 And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now, therefore, lest perhaps he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever. 23 And the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to till the earth from which he was taken. 24 And he cast out Adam; and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
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Dubiety
As defined by Merriam-Webster, “dubiety” means “a usually hesitant uncertainty or doubt that tends to cause vacillation”. An example is Robert Louis Stevenson’s Across the Plains: “Upon one point there should be no dubiety: if a man be not frugal, he has no business in the arts.” Here frugal means “concise and direct, that is, not sparing”. Say what you mean. This and good manners apply in all situations, like introductions. The three-part travel memoir consists of The Amateur Emigrant; Across the Plains; and The Silverado Squatters, published in its entirety in 1895. The book documents his 1879 journey from Scotland to California but was published posthumously, a year after his death. Avoid euphemisms, such as “passed away”, and an alien's an alien. Despite time in the United States, he never became an American citizen. He was a Scottish novelist when he died an alien to Samoa, 1894. Buy a book on introductions. Get off the damn phone. Be present! Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno (cinematic video created by AI Art) Genre: poetry Google AI Overview Q. When did Dante Alighieri write the Divine Comedy? A. He wrote the Divine Comedy between 1308 and his death in 1320. While the exact dates are debated, it's generally accepted he began writing it after his exile in 1302 and completed it just before his death.
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Q. Did Dante Alighieri write the Divine Comedy in Latin? A. No. It was not written in Latin; it was written in the Tuscan dialect, which is the foundation of modern Italian. Dante Alighieri's choice to use his native vernacular instead of Latin was a deliberate and influential decision that helped establish the language as a respected literary medium.
1951 The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of 18 science fiction short stories. A recurring theme throughout is the conflict between technology and the psychology of people. The collection was nominated for the International Fantasy Award in 1952. There are 208 poems, short stories, and novels in the Reading List, reprinted, narrated, or recommended.
-source Nameberry I posted this before I heard anything about 3I/Atlas. Ha-ha. It's not a new world. migration patterns by Richard Matheson, science fiction/fantasy writer, 1926-2013 I classified this short story as horror/supernatural. Jules is not abnormal. James Joyce’s Finnegan's Wake was placed on the Church’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Index of Forbidden Books) primarily because of its obscenity, irreverence toward religion, and blasphemous treatment of sacred subjects.
Latin and English Grammar
In forma pauperis is a Latin legal term for "in the manner of a pauper", allowing a person with a low income to proceed in court without having to pay the usual fees associated with a lawsuit or appeal. To use this provision, an individual must file an application, typically with a signed affidavit, declaring that he can't afford the costs and believing that he is entitled to relief. Eligibility is based on factors like income, and the court has the discretion to grant or deny the request. I had to correct Google AI Overview (Gemini) on 1) establishing parallelism (declaring/believing), 2) fixing subject-verb agreement (changing they to he twice), and 3) adding that. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/verb-patterns-verb-that-clause Latin grammar is harder than English grammar because of its complex system of noun declensions and verb conjugations, whereas English relies on word order and has relatively simpler grammar. I had to fix Gemini's statement on that, too. Do Latin and English matter? Hell yes. Sapphic dating refers to romantic interactions and relationships between women or woman-aligned people, originating from the ancient Greek poet Sappho, 630-570 BC. It encompasses a broad spectrum of relationships including those of lesbians, bisexuals, and queer individuals, and often involves an emphasis on authentic connection, communication, and navigating dating within the queer community. What caused me to look up this definition? Britney Griner is in the news again. Except for Lesbian, these nouns and adjectives are bogus, having been invented starting in the 19th century. The Island of Lesbos is the birthplace of female Sappho. No man is an island.
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Take the cloak from his face, and at first Let the corpse do its worst! How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And, absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change. Ha, what avails death to erase His offence, my disgrace? I would we were boys as of old In the field, by the fold: His outrage, God's patience, man's scorn Were so easily borne! I stand here now, he lies in his place: Cover the face! Robert Browning 1812-1889 Father never lied to me. The Catholic Church told a lie. Let them lie a cover on the face, They cannot flee. “A sheep in wolf’s clothing” describes a person who appears dangerous, malicious, or cunning but is innocent, harmless, or gentle. This phrase is a humorous reversal of the well-known idiom, “a wolf in sheep's clothing”, which refers to someone who pretends to be harmless but is a threat. The phrase, “a wolf in sheep's clothing”, comes from the Sermon on the Mount. 23 And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood over the mount that is on the east side of the city The Pale Man
Bleak House Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House was first published as a serial beginning in March 1852 in 20 monthly installments before being released as a single book. Opening passage "London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill." Television series, Episode 01 https://m.ok.ru/video/3099075021534 In third year of college, I read several novels for one English class (approximate pages): The Woman In White 700, The Moonstone 500, Jane Eyre 500, Emma 500, Pride and Prejudice 450, Vanity Fair 700, and Middlemarch 700. I tired at the last one and did not finish and the rest is history. That's at least 3,000 pages. Check out my Reading List or go Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/art/American-literature/The-20th-century SAT
I can offer proof for what she said. In 2007, my English SAT scores were in the mid-700s, based on test prep books. In 2017, my SAT scores had dropped into the mid-600s, based on the new test prep books, which is where I was in 12th grade. According to the SAT, this writer of over 25 years, at that point, had not improved at all. Phonics Oxford Dictionary -a method of teaching people to read by correlating sounds with letters or groups of letters in an alphabetic writing system I don't teach phonics because I don't tutor children under 11, and Alexander, now 11, is the best exception I've ever encountered. Ira Shore Born June 2, 1945, he is a professor at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, and teaches composition and rhetoric. Yep, you guessed it, he's Jewish. Julius Long was born in Ohio in 1907, and while lawyering he penned a handful of horror and detective tales before his death in 1955 at age 48. Some of his stories were published in Weird Tales Magazine during the 1930s. His most popular offering was this story from 1934. The magazine ceased publishing in 1954.
a cognitive eunuch of the Ottoman Caliphate
an 18-minute story that reveals some history 1517-1924 https://dn710008.ca.archive.org/0/items/ss091_2007_librivox/ss091_02_various_128kb.mp3 When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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definition: to make a deliberately offensive or provocative statement, online or in person, with the aim of eliciting an angry response Word root The origins of the term "trolling" are Old French, German, and possibly Old Norse, with the noun troll being a mythological creature and the verb troll first meaning to "roll" or "wander" before applying to the fishing method and later to the behavior. The fishing technique, which uses bait to "lure" fish, is seen as direct inspiration for the behavior of "luring" people into arguments. Early English usage The word troll first appeared in English in the late 14th century, and it meant "to wander or roll". Trollers They come in all shapes and sizes and sometimes from an inner circle. A circle has two sides, an inside and an outside, or the top and bottom of a flat disc. Alexander and I had a discussion today about circles. We are now doing a little math and some writing in Latin. Lifeboat Tallulah Bankhead's diamond bracelet is the bait. Magic her performance is not: it is majestic. When the New Mass of 1969 went into effect, all the churches that have some form of a 'mass' imitated it. Just look at Anglican or Lutheran services, the Mormon ritual video, and the New Mass itself. All imitated the Latin Mass. This is so sinister. Google AI Overview Linguistic Roots
Something few notice in the Latin Mass is the equilateral triangle, symbol of God, formed by priest and two altar boys.   Google AI Overview
Q. Is the root of the English word travel the French word travail? A. Yes, the English word "travel" comes from the French word "travail". Both words share an ancient root in the Latin word trepalium [or tripalium], an instrument of torture, and initially carried similar meanings of "struggle" or "hard work". In the Middle Ages, travel was a difficult and arduous undertaking, which led to the development of the verb "travel" from the existing word "travail" to describe this laborious journey. Three words, travail, travel, and trip derive from this one Latin word, tripalium. If I complained to my parents, I got a silent tripalium. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TripaliumCropped.png Leigh Brackett 1915–1978
Edmond Hamilton 1904–1977 film franchise 14 releases & merch Joseph Campbell was a Jungian. I watched some of his documentaries long ago and in another world. I fell asleep for a long, long time. love Leigh's last lines 12 minutes
surprise ending George Frederick Humphrey was born on 4 November 1867, in Brockford, Suffolk, England, and married Alice Eliza Ashford on 9 May 1900, in Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa. They were the parents of at least three sons. In 1911 he lived in Ealing, Middlesex, and in 1939 he lived in Wembley, Middlesex. He died on 5 January 1945, Fulham, London at 77. The recommended reads is now 62 poems, 90 short stories, and 42 novels (194). That leaves out almost everything I read of Shakespeare (160 sonnets). I'm a blasphemous English major for not liking him. Only his recusant status appeals.  the one dollar-bill The above Shutterstock image is in the article below. I have used Shutterstock pictures and AI-generated pictures throughout my blog. Example …  South African farm house, pre-apartheid www.unz.com/article/the-freemason-in-the-rye/#aitextsummary The Freemason in the Rye, by Joe Atwill • August 11, 2025 • 9,000 Words • 10 Comments • Reply (Adult language. You can read it yourself and then explain it to a child without the words if intelligent enough to understand; maybe an explanation of the dollar-bill is sufficient. However, this is the most significant piece of writing I have ever read about Freemasons.) My good, good friend, Bill, from St. Stephen the First Martyr Catholic Church in Sacramento, sent me the article.  Title: The lapidation of Saint Stephen
Description: stoning of Saint Stephen Artist: Rembrandt (1606–1669) Genre: religious art Date: 1625 (He painted this scene when he was 19!) Medium: oil on oak wood Dimensions: three feet by four feet (roughly) Collection: Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (France) Painting history
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rembrandt-Lapidation-Saint-%C3%89tienne-MBA-Lyon.jpg The background is, of course, Europe. You paint what you know, just as you write what you know. The rest is your imagination. By G. K. Chesterton
White founts falling in the courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There is laughter like the fountains in that face of all men feared, It stirs the forest darkness, the darkness of his beard, It curls the blood-red crescent, the crescent of his lips, For the inmost sea of all the earth is shaken with his ships. They have dared the white republics up the capes of Italy, They have dashed the Adriatic round the Lion of the Sea, And the Pope has cast his arms abroad for agony and loss, And called the kings of Christendom for swords about the Cross, The cold queen of England is looking in the glass; The shadow of the Valois is yawning at the Mass; From evening isles fantastical rings faint the Spanish gun, And the Lord upon the Golden Horn is laughing in the sun. Dim drums throbbing, in the hills half heard, Where only on a nameless throne a crownless prince has stirred, Where, risen from a doubtful seat and half attainted stall, The last knight of Europe takes weapons from the wall, The last and lingering troubadour to whom the bird has sung, That once went singing southward when all the world was young, In that enormous silence, tiny and unafraid, Comes up along a winding road the noise of the Crusade. Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far, Don John of Austria is going to the war, Stiff flags straining in the night-blasts cold In the gloom black-purple, in the glint old-gold, Torchlight crimson on the copper kettle-drums, Then the tuckets, then the trumpets, then the cannon, and he comes. Don John laughing in the brave beard curled, Spurning of his stirrups like the thrones of all the world, Holding his head up for a flag of all the free. Love-light of Spain—hurrah! Death-light of Africa! Don John of Austria Is riding to the sea. Mahound is in his paradise above the evening star, (Don John of Austria is going to the war.) He moves a mighty turban on the timeless houri’s knees, His turban that is woven of the sunset and the seas. He shakes the peacock gardens as he rises from his ease, And he strides among the tree-tops and is taller than the trees, And his voice through all the garden is a thunder sent to bring Black Azrael and Ariel and Ammon on the wing. Giants and the Genii, Multiplex of wing and eye, Whose strong obedience broke the sky When Solomon was king. They rush in red and purple from the red clouds of the morn, From temples where the yellow gods shut up their eyes in scorn; They rise in green robes roaring from the green hells of the sea Where fallen skies and evil hues and eyeless creatures be; On them the sea-valves cluster and the grey sea-forests curl, Splashed with a splendid sickness, the sickness of the pearl; They swell in sapphire smoke out of the blue cracks of the ground,-- They gather and they wonder and give worship to Mahound. And he saith, “Break up the mountains where the hermit-folk can hide, And sift the red and silver sands lest bone of saint abide, And chase the Giaours flying night and day, not giving rest, For that which was our trouble comes again out of the west. We have set the seal of Solomon on all things under sun, Of knowledge and of sorrow and endurance of things done, But a noise is in the mountains, in the mountains, and I know The voice that shook our palaces—four hundred years ago: It is he that saith not ‘Kismet’; it is he that knows not Fate; It is Richard, it is Raymond, it is Godfrey in the gate! It is he whose loss is laughter when he counts the wager worth, Put down your feet upon him, that our peace be on the earth.” For he heard drums groaning and he heard guns jar, (Don John of Austria is going to the war.) Sudden and still—hurrah! Bolt from Iberia! Don John of Austria Is gone by Alcalar. St. Michael’s on his mountain in the sea-roads of the north (Don John of Austria is girt and going forth.) Where the grey seas glitter and the sharp tides shift And the sea folk labour and the red sails lift. He shakes his lance of iron and he claps his wings of stone; The noise is gone through Normandy; the noise is gone alone; The North is full of tangled things and texts and aching eyes And dead is all the innocence of anger and surprise, And Christian killeth Christian in a narrow dusty room, And Christian dreadeth Christ that hath a newer face of doom, And Christian hateth Mary that God kissed in Galilee, But Don John of Austria is riding to the sea. Don John calling through the blast and the eclipse Crying with the trumpet, with the trumpet of his lips, Trumpet that sayeth ha! Domino gloria! Don John of Austria Is shouting to the ships. King Philip’s in his closet with the Fleece about his neck (Don John of Austria is armed upon the deck.) The walls are hung with velvet that is black and soft as sin, And little dwarfs creep out of it and little dwarfs creep in. He holds a crystal phial that has colours like the moon, He touches, and it tingles, and he trembles very soon, And his face is as a fungus of a leprous white and grey Like plants in the high houses that are shuttered from the day, And death is in the phial, and the end of noble work, But Don John of Austria has fired upon the Turk. Don John’s hunting, and his hounds have bayed-- Booms away past Italy the rumour of his raid Gun upon gun, ha! ha! Gun upon gun, hurrah! Don John of Austria Has loosed the cannonade. The Pope was in his chapel before day or battle broke, (Don John of Austria is hidden in the smoke.) The hidden room in man’s house where God sits all the year, The secret window whence the world looks small and very dear. He sees as in a mirror on the monstrous twilight sea The crescent of his cruel ships whose name is mystery; They fling great shadows foe-wards, making Cross and Castle dark, They veil the plumèd lions on the galleys of St. Mark; And above the ships are palaces of brown, black-bearded chiefs, And below the ships are prisons, where with multitudinous griefs, Christian captives sick and sunless, all a labouring race repines Like a race in sunken cities, like a nation in the mines. They are lost like slaves that swat, and in the skies of morning hung The stair-ways of the tallest gods when tyranny was young. They are countless, voiceless, hopeless as those fallen or fleeing on Before the high Kings’ horses in the granite of Babylon. And many a one grows witless in his quiet room in hell Where a yellow face looks inward through the lattice of his cell, And he finds his God forgotten, and he seeks no more a sign-- (But Don John of Austria has burst the battle-line!) Don John pounding from the slaughter-painted poop, Purpling all the ocean like a bloody pirate’s sloop, Scarlet running over on the silvers and the golds, Breaking of the hatches up and bursting of the holds, Thronging of the thousands up that labour under sea White for bliss and blind for sun and stunned for liberty. Vivat Hispania! Domino Gloria! Don John of Austria Has set his people free! Cervantes on his galley sets the sword back in the sheath (Don John of Austria rides homeward with a wreath.) And he sees across a weary land a straggling road in Spain, Up which a lean and foolish knight forever rides in vain, And he smiles, but not as Sultans smile, and settles back the blade.... (But Don John of Austria rides home from the Crusade.) Copyright Credit: Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "Lepanto" from The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton. United Kingdom: C. Palmer, 1927. Source: The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton (1927) Chesterton was a convert. The story is full of Catholic imagery and theology. Think on it. "Tomorrow's Child", originally titled "The Shape of Things", was published in the February 1948 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories. It appeared under the title "I Sing the Body Electric!" as episode #100 of The Twilight Zone, which aired May 1962, and was written by same. Tradition has it that, at 18, Jesus gave Joseph permission to die. There is a pyramid on top of the tabernacle subdiaconate. United States
Gen Alpha slang 2025 slang terms with top searched synonyms: Unc → Old; Fine shyt → Baddie; Crash out → Freak out; Chopped → Ugly; Lock in → Focus; Drip → Looking sharp; Pookie → Boo Now, you drip. "The Danger of Lying in Bed" is an essay written by Mark Twain, published in the February 1871 edition of The Galaxy, a magazine. The essay humorously explores the idea of lying in bed and Twain's own habit of writing in bed. Actuaries use mathematical and statistical models to calculate expected claims and determine premiums. He was a board member of the Hartford Accident Insurance Company in the 1870s, and Hartford, CT, was a major center for the insurance industry at the time. It still is. Google AI Overview
"The San Francisco Call began life on December 1, 1856, as the Daily Morning Call. Staunchly Republican in political outlook, the Call was popular with the working classes, and it was the city’s leading morning newspaper for several decades. By the summer of 1864, the Call was boasting the highest daily circulation in the city, and its readership continued to rise, going from 10,750 in 1865 to 41,066 in 1880. "In 1884 it boasted a circulation double that of any other daily. Originally a four page daily, the Call also put out a weekly, published on Tuesdays, and a Sunday edition. One of the paper’s early writers was Mark Twain, who served as Nevada correspondent in 1863 and as reporter after he moved to San Francisco the following year. In just over four months as full-time beat reporter, Twain produced some 200 articles on crime and the courts, theater and the opera, and politics..." quote from Chronicling America Gabriella and Ryan lived in LA 70 years ago. How do I know?
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