- january 17
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◁ virgil Aenead VI.750
Has omnes, ubi mille rotam volvere per annos,
Lethaeum ad fluvium deus evocat agmine magno,
scilicet immemores supera ut convexa revisant,
rursus et incipiant in corpora velle reverti.
(At last, when the millennial aeon strikes, God calls them forth to yon Lethaean stream, In numerous host, that thence, oblivious all, They may behold once more the vaulted sky, And willingly to shapes of flesh return.)
< Found this from a stamp on a front cover: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k97697167?rk=42918;4# >
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◀ management
Xenophon's Οἰκονομικός was translated by Étienne de la Boétie as La Mesnagerie de Xenophon (Xenophon's Administration of the Household). Published after his death, against his will, by his friend Montaigne, together with his translations of Les Regles de mariage (Plutarch) and a Lettre de consolation (of Plutarch to his wife).
Etymology of "manager" and "management" from etymonline: 1560s, "to handle, train, or direct" (a horse), from the now-obsolete noun manage "the handling or training of a horse; horsemanship" (see manege, which is a modern revival of it), from Old French manège "horsemanship," from Italian maneggio, from maneggiare "to handle, touch," especially "to control a horse," which ultimately from Latin noun manus "hand" (from PIE root *man- (2) "hand").
A carousel (with horses on poles moving up and down as they orbit) is called a manège
Etymology of manège: Étymol. et Hist. 1. 1611 «lieu où l'on exerce les chevaux; action d'exercer les chevaux» (Cotgr.); 1812 «appareil servant à utiliser la force des chevaux pour faire mouvoir une machine» (Mozin-Biber); 1893 manège de chevaux de bois (DG); 2. 1671 au fig. «manières d'agir adroites et artificieuses» (Mmede Sévigné, Lettre à Mmede Grignan, 11 nov. ds Corresp., éd. R. Duchêne, t. 1, p. 377). Empr. à l'ital. maneggio, att. au sens de «dressage des chevaux» dep. 1590 (Grisone ds Batt.), proprement «maniement, exercice, etc.», déverbal de maneggiare (manéger*).
so Menagerie, Management, Ménage (household and cleaning house), Manège (carousel) are stretches of the same piece of letter-gum
♥ | - january 12
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◁ Types of Fasteners (English)
anchor bolt batten bolt (fastener) screw bolt snap brass fastener buckle button cable tie cam captive fastener clamp (or cramp) hose clamp clasp and shackle bolt snap carabiner circle cotter lobster clasp cleco clip circlip hairpin clip paper clip terry clip clutch drawing pin (thumbtack) flange frog grommet hook-and-eye closure hook and loop fastener Velcro latch nail and rivet solid/round head rivets semi-tubular rivets blind (pop) rivet pegs clothespin tent peg PEM nut pins clevis fastener cotter dowel linchpin R-clip safety pin split pin spring pin tapered pin retaining rings circlip e-ring rivet-like well nut rock bolt rubber band (or bands of other materials) screw anchor snap fastener snap-fit staple stitches strap tie toggle bolt tolerance rings treasury tag twist tie wedge anchor zipper
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◀ (no subject)
Clip with golden loops
Colorful thematic binder clips
Colorful binder clips
Used to mark drinking glasses at a party
Used to hang a drawing
Used to attach a piece of paper to an envelope
Used to hold pages of a notebook
Used during restoration of a book
Used to close a package of cookies
Used as a DIY cellphone stand
Used as a cable tidy
( Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binder_clip#Gallery )
♥ | - january 11
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◁ γένος / φῦλον
(todo: since they seem to overlap, I want to know how they don't)
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◀ Walsh, "The Omitted Date in the Athenian Hollow Month"
[The lunar month begins with a New Moon. Lunar date counts up in thirds; 1-10, 11-20, and 10-1. More or less. Caveats: 20 is actually called "Earlier 10," distinguished from its lendemain, "Later 10"; waxing 1 is called νουμηνία, "new month"; and waning 1 is called ἕνη καὶ νέα, "old and young." So that the days of a month are, in principle, as follows:
noumenia, or new moon || 2nd waxing || 3rd waxing || 4th waxing || 5th waxing || 6th waxing || 7th waxing || 8th waxing || 9th waxing || 10th waxing || 11th || 12th || 13th || 14th || 15th || 16th || 17th || 18th || 19th || earlier 10th || later 10th || 9th waning || 8th waning || 7th waning || 6th waning || 5th waning || 4th waning || 3rd waning || 2nd waning || henē kai nea, the "old and the new".
But there's a second caveat, which is what's referred to as the hollow month.]
The Athenian month normally contained 30 or 29 days. In a hollow 29 day month one of the dates used in a full 30 day month was necessarily left unused or, to put it another way, omitted (fn 2.) Some hold that the omitted date was the date which ended the backward count of the month's third decade, deutera phthinontos. Others hold that the omitted date was the date which began the backward count of the month's third decade, dekate/enate phthinontos.
[footnote] ((2)) It has become traditional to speak of a day which was omitted from the hollow month. I have decided to cast the problem in terms of an omitted date because strictly speaking, there was no day omitted from a hollow month. Rather, it was a date which was left unused or uncounted. Nor is the distinction between day and date an idle one. Speaking in terms of the '21st' or '29th' day's being omitted has resulted in a misrepresentation of crucial aspects of the problem under our consideration. The Athenian hollow month did not omit either the 21st or 29th day. The question which needs to be addressed is the following: did the Athenian month leave uncounted the date at the beginning of backward count (dekate/enate phthinontos) or the date at the end of the backward count (deutera phthinontos).
[op. cit. Nicole Loraux, La cité divisée p. 189, "Sur un jour interdit de calendrier à Athènes"]
- january 2
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◁ Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann
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◀ Zum psychischen Mechanismus der Vergesslichkeit
,,Wie heisst doch der . . .?; ein so bekannter Name; er liegt mir auf der Zunge; im Augenblick ist er mir entfallen. " Unverkennbare ärgerliche Erregung ähnlich jener der motorisch Aphasischen begleitet nun die weiteren Bemühungen den Namen zu finden, über den man nach seinem Gefühl noch vor einem Moment hätte verfügen können.
'What is his name? It's a big name. It's on the tip of my tongue. Just this minute it's escaped me.' An unmistakable feeling of irritation, similar to that which accompanies motor aphasia, now attends our further efforts to find the name, which we feel we had in our head only a moment before.
♥ | - december 31
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ἁρμονία αὐστηρά (Dionysius Halicarnassus)
harte Fügung (Hölderlin + von Hellingrath on H on Pindar)
parlar aspro (Last of Dante's Rime petrose)
- december 30
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◀ "The Growth of National Sentiment in France Before the Fifteenth Century," Dorothy Kirkland, 1938
Guérard, in the first chapter of his book French Civilisation from its Origins to the Close of the Middle Ages makes the arresting observation that apparently no civilisation reaches its perfection until, in point of historical fact, it has already been superseded. "Feudalism," he says, "did not find its complete expression until it had outlived its usefulness--such as that may have been. The theory of absolute monarchy was firmly established at last under Louis XIV: but it had already become a hindrance. Nationalism grew obscurely for many generations: it did not become dominant in men's consciousness until the nineteenth century, when the internationalism of science and industry was making it obsolete."
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