Wednesday, June 26, 2024

"Mistrust him, Meg, will I not"

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      "'Mistruste him, Megge, wil I not, though I feale me faint, yea, and though I shoulde fele my feare euen at poynt to ouerthro...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Papias, the 11th-century lexicographer and grammarian, on "labyrinth"

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  From his Elementarium : "or, as it were, an interior labor" (labor-int-us).      I was put onto this by Annie Cazenave, "Ch...
Friday, June 14, 2024

"the father would renounce his religion and remain at home to raise the children while the mother went to the Solovetsky Islands."

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"However, the root destruction of religion in the country, which throughout the twenties and thirties was one of the most important goa...

"why did I keep silent?"

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     "Yes, resistance should have begun right there, at the moment of the arrest itself.      "But it did not begin.      "An...

Anti-classism

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"In his instructions on the use of Red Terror, the Chekist M. I. Latsis wrote:  'In the interrogation do not seek evidence and proo...
Saturday, June 8, 2024

"Is there any truth to this claim?"

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"In the course of time the Easter dance came [ for a period ] to be directed to and confined within the labyrinths that were set within...
Friday, June 7, 2024

"The house of the Lord (domus Dei) consumed the house of Daedalus (domus Daedali)"

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      "Although symmetry can be identified in mazes since the dawn of the Mediterranean world, not all mazes possess a beautifully repe...