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tchrist
tchrist
3:13 AM
What is markedly unusual about that particular typeface?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
4:05 AM
I don't know; what is?
It doesn't look atypical for the age?
The space between the capitals and the rest of the words looks odd to modern eyes.
 
 
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Færd
Færd
10:23 AM
@Robusto What I wanted to do there was attract the same attention to two points, not as contrasting opposites but as equally noteworthy facts, as if to perfectly balance them on the two pans of a weighing scale.
I started out in my mind with "You're the prettiest girl I did like but did not have.".
I probably wasn't aware of the folksy tinge that did like cast on the confession (thanks for pointing that out), but I wouldn't have minded it.
What I did mind was the asymmetry that but introduced in the sentence. So I replaced it with and and tied the two sides together with both, but it didn't work out very successfully in the end.
Mayeb more because of coupling a negative and a positive with both, than due to did love instead of loved, IMO. That was what I wanted to ask about.
Let me remove the both.
> You're the prettiest girl I did like and did not have.
Ugh.
Even worse.
 
 
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Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
2:59 PM
@Cerberus does the word cardscæcilia mean anything in Latin? It's in the context of a stained glass window. It could be two words. it's under the picture of a cardinal, so I'm guessing it means that, but I couldn't find a translation.
 
 
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terdon
terdon
4:30 PM
@MattE.Эллен Isn't it just the fellow's name? Cardinal Cæcilia? Presumably the one Simon & Garfunkel were singing about?
 
Mitch
Mitch
4:47 PM
@terdon Ky keelia, you're breaking my heart.
I wanna join a book club where the selection one month a volume of OED.
 
terdon
terdon
@Mitch :)
 
 
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MetaEd
MetaEd
6:40 PM
Mornin.
Or so.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
7:13 PM
@MattE.Эллен That's not a word.
CARDS could be an abbreviation of cardinalis.
Caecilia is a woman's name.
Which seems less likely for a cardinal.
Cardinalis can also mean "pivotal".
You don't happen to have a picture?
It's hard to say more without more context.
Could it be part of a longer sentence distributed over several panes or something?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
7:53 PM
@Cerberus O ye of little faith. So many a fair maid hath been a cardinal. A pope, even.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Yeah I think that's apocryphal.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
You're apocryphal.
Like literally, there never has been a Cerberus.
 
 
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Robusto
Robusto
8:58 PM
@Mitch You should take a page from Borges:
El libro de arena (cuento)
El libro de arena es un cuento perteneciente al libro homónimo del escritor argentino Jorge Luis Borges. Se trata del último cuento de ese volumen; en esta narración Borges retoma tópicos desarrollados en cuentos anteriores. En particular, El libro de arena parece ser en muchos aspectos una reescritura de La biblioteca de Babel. Si en aquel cuento Borges describía una biblioteca infinita, poblada por infinitos libros que contenían infinitas veces todos los textos posibles, en este cuento esa fantasía se expresa en un único libro. En la nota final de La biblioteca de Babel, Borges anticipa este…
Not the story itself, but the book the story is about. Find a different page each time and have the club discuss.
 
Mitch
Mitch
9:28 PM
@Robusto Haha. I just checked out Garden of Forking Paths this morning
Er...Ficciones, but it has Garden of Forking Paths and La Biblioteca de Babel.
WTH. Did just a handful of authors write all the last best works ever and then ... it's all vampires, shades of gray BDSM, and zombies.
Or is it stuff we read as kids (sorry, kids these days) was just the first thing we read and meant stuff to us because it was the most important thing we ever read, and the same thing later just paled in comparison.
Like Hazy Shade of Winter? Or Roll over Beethoven? or President GHWB (GWB II just wasn't as good as the first one)...
Anyway, where is all the good stuff nowadays?
Lest I am misleading, no I never read Borges (or Italo Calvino, or Stansław Lem) when I was younger. Only found out about Calvino about 5 years ago, and Borges about 2 (Lem in my twenties). So that totally messes up with the above implication that things are only perceived as great when you are younger. But really music from the 70's was great.
Not like that crap that came afterwards
I mean (as far as writing goes) what the hell is good nowadays?
 
 
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RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
10:53 PM
Also, Stanisław Lem was the best when I read him in the 80s. Never read him since.
 
Robusto
Robusto
11:18 PM
@RegDwigнt Yeah, I don't think so. At 14 I liked a lot of things I can't even listen to now. My taste(s) in music are very eclectic, and I'm adding new likes all the time. Still not seeing the whole country thing, though ...
@Mitch Yeah, and I went through a phase where Under the Volcano was the absolute last word in fiction. I tried to reread it a few years ago and couldn't even tolerate the first few pages.
@RegDwigнt Adam Neely has some good vids and some not-so-good ones. He certainly has nothing to teach me about musical taste. I don't think anybody does. I like what I like.
 

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