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. Brincknell Inquest 1567
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~ahnelson/DOCS/brinck.html
.
. "[E]dwardus [C]omes [O]xon{iensis}"
.
*ECHO* : [ECO] (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese)
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. Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 2
.
JULIET: Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud;
. Else would I tear the CAVE wHERE *ECHO* lies,
. And make her AIRY tongue more hoarse than mine,
. With repetition of my Rom{EO}'s name.
...............................................
. Help *ECHO* that in AIR doth flee,
. shrill voices to resound,
. To wail this LOSS of my good name,
. as of these griefs the ground. -- {E.O.}
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<<*EChO* was a nymph who was a great singer & dancer and scorned the
love of any man. This angered Pan, a lecherous god, and he instructed
his followers to kill her. *EChO* was torn to pieces and spread all
over earth. The goddess of the earth, Gaia, received the pieces
of *EChO*, whose voice remains repeating the last words of others.
In some versions, *EChO* & Pan first had one child: *IAMBE* .>>
....................................................
*IAMB* : A metrical foot in verse consisting of an
unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
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Yet who doth most adore this sight, oh hollow CAVEs tell TRUE ? You.
What NYMPH DEsERVEs his liking best, yet doth in sorrow rue ? You.
What makes him not reward good will with some reward or ruth ? Youth.
What makes him show besides his birth,
such pride and such unTRUTH? Youth.
May I his favour match with love, if he my love will try? Ay.
May I requite his birth with faith ? Then faithful will I die? Ay.
And I, that knew this lady well,
Said, Lord how great a miracle,
To her how *ECHO told the TRUTH* ,
*AS TRUE AS PHOEBUS' oracle* . - The Earle of Oxforde.
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_Hamlet_ translation by Eleanor Rowe 1946
[T]he rumbling has grown quiet. I walk out on the stage.
[L]eaning against a door *JAMB* ,
[I] try to catch in a distant *ECHO*
[W]hat will happen in my lifetime.
At me is aimed the murkiness of night;
I'm pinned by a thousand opera glasses.
If only it is possible, Abba, Father,
May this cup be carried past me.
I cherish your stubborn design
And am agreed to play this role.
But now a different drama is underway;
This time, release me.
[B]ut the order of the acts has been determined,
[A]nd the ending of the journey cannot be averted.
[I]]am alone; all drowns in Pharisiasm.
[T]o live life is not to cross a field.
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<<On the tenth day, Demeter went to Eleusis in disguise. There King
Celeus & Queen Metaneira entertained her and graciously offered her
the position of wet-nurse to their son Demophoon. *IAMBE*, the LAME
princess, tried to cheer Demeter up with silly lascivious verses.
Baubo, the dry nurse, joined her in a joke too. (The three of them
formed a Triple-Goddess.) Then, an elder son of Celeus, Abas,
accused Demeter of greediness while she drank barley-water.
Without thinking, Demeter threw him a grim look, and
turned him into a lizard. Later, she felt bad, and decided to
make Demophoon immortal. She put him in her sacred fire, chanting,
to burn away his mortality. Unfortunately, Metaneira came in
before the ceremony was complete, and Demophoon died. Now that was two
sons dead by a goddesses hand, and Celeus began to think his house was
cursed. In his weeping his name got changed to Dysaules (which means
"of an unlucky house"), and Demeter told him to stop weeping, because
she would bestow many gifts upon his third son Triptolemus.
Triptolemus was the one who told her the information
she needed about Persephone.
http://www.paleothea.com/SortaSingles/Demeter.html
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<<It is said that Demeter disguised herself as an old,
haggardly dressed woman. She came upon the house of the great King
Celeus at Eleusis, and there was greeted with great honor. The Queen
Metaneira offered the disguised Demeter a chair, but she refused.
Only when the cheerful servant IAMBE placed a silVERy ram's fleece on
the chair, did Demeter sit down. She was then offered something to
drink, but again, she would only accept some barley water from the
servant IAMBE, who made her feel happy for the first time in a long
time. This act is symbolic of communion; as commemorating
the sorrow of the goddess.
The drinking of the 'potion' is one of the most important rituals
in the Eleusinian mysteries. Then Queen Metaneira bade Demeter
to take her son Demophoon to her breast and to nurse him. She too,
however, stopped the immortalizing ritual which Demeter was to
perform. Demeter once again scolded Queen Metaneira for her cruelty.
Then Demeter released herself from her disguise,
and stood in the palace in all of her splendor.
King Celeus proclaimed that a temple should be built in honor
of the great nurturing goddess, where many top secret rituals
would be performed in her honor.>>
http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/imageswomen/papers/paolicchidemeter/dem...
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III. THE VISIT TO ELEUSIS by Demeter.
Taking the form of an old woman (crone), Demeter sits down to rest
near a well called Parthenion (`Maiden'), where she is approached
by the daughters of King Celeus, who have come to fetch water.
They treat the disguised goddess sympathetically, and invite her to
come to the Palace, since their mother needs a nanny for their young
brother; the most amusing of the girls is IAMBE (`IAMBic verse').
Offered hospitality, Demeter refuses wine, but accepts a drink called
kykeion (barley water with pennyroyal). Queen METANEIRA is impressed
with the `woman' and gives her employment. Demeter anoints the baby
Demopho(o)n every evening with ambrosia, and puts the baby in the fire
of the hearth to burn away its mortality. But one evening Metaneira
spies on Demeter and interrupts the rite. Demeter drops the child in
surprise, resumes her divine form, and rebukes Metaneira for
interfering with divine secrets which would have made
the baby immortal. But Demeter does promise to teach her
sacred rituals to the Eleusinians.
http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/demeter1.html
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*VÆRE* : *TO BE* (Danish)
*JEG ER* , William : *I AM THAT I AM* publisher
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. Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, Bk I, Aph.120.
.
<<Existence, or pure Being, is the divine Word. It simply is. The
cabalistic formula for this is the expression, 'I AM'. Just as the
image of sound is its ECHO, so the image of existence is the knowledge
of that existence-self-consciousness, in other words. There are two
basic types of consciousness: INNOCENT or pure consciousness that
contains the wisdom but doesn't yet know it, and self-consciousness or
self-knowledge that does know. Pure consciousness is associated with
the pure but INNOCENT intelligence-the intelligence of the heart-which
has the capacity to know the wisdom that exists within it as its life
or being, but as yet is ignorant of it and what it means. . .
We might say, 'Oh, but I knew that already!' However, the reality is
that we did not know it before, as such, and yet we had the TRUTH of
it already in our hearts. We needed something, however, to wake it
up and bring it to our mind as knowledge of that TRUTH.
The cabalistic name for this knowledge, image or ECHO is 'THAT':
. hence the complete formula or god-name for both the
. Holy Trinity and the Son of God is 'I AM That I AM'.
. In HEBREW this is rendered by 'AHIH Asher AHIH'.
.
AHIH refers to 'the Living God' ('I AM'), the parent of 'That'.
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. `Twopence a week, and JAM EVERy other day.'
.
Alice couldn't help laughing, as she said,
`I don't want you to hire ME--and I don't care for JAM.'
.
. `It's VERy good JAM,' said the Queen.
.
`Well, I don't want any TO-DAY, at any rate.'
.
`You couldn't have it if you DID want it,' the Queen said.
.
. `The rule is,
JAM to-morrow and JAM yesterday--but nEVER JAM to-day.'
.
`It MUST come sometimes to "JAM to-day,"' Alice objected.
.
`No, it can't,' said the Queen. `It's JAM EVERy OTHER day:
. to-day isn't any OTHER day, you know.'
.
`I don't understand you,' said Alice. `It's dreadfully confusing!'
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*IAMBus* , n.; pl. L. {IAMBi}, E. {IAMBuses}.
[L. IAMBus, Gr. ?; prob. akin to ? to throw, assail
(the IAMBus being first used in satiric poetry),
. and to L. jacere to throw. Cf. {Jet} a shooting forth.] (Pros.)
A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in
[a^]m[=a]ns, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one,
as invent; an IAMBic. See the Couplet under {IAMBic}, n.
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FW 27.17: Were I a clerk designate to the Williams-woodsmenufactors
. I'd poster those pouters on *EVERy JAMB* in the town.
.
FW 68.1: Luperca Latouche, finding one day while dodging chores
. that she stripped teasily for binocu-lar man
. and that her *JAMBs* were jimpjoyed to see each other,
.
FW 117.10: From quiqui quinet to michemiche chelet and
. a *JAMBebatiste* to a brulobrulo! It is told in sounds
in utter that, in signs so adds to, in universal,
FW 155.4: -- Your *TEMPLE, SUS* in cribro!
SemperexcommunicambIAMBi-sumers.
FW 199.17: Sikiang sukry or his ale of ferns in TRUEart pewter and
. a shin-kobread ( *hamJAMBo* , bana?) for to plaise that man
. HOG stay his stomicker till her pyrraknees shrunk to nutmeg
. graters while her togglejoints shuck with goyt and as rash
. as she'd russ with her peakload of viVERS up on her sieve
.
FW 228.25: EVERy monk his own cashel where EVERy little ligger
.is his own liogotenente with inclined *JAMBs* in full purview
. to his pronaose and to the deretane at his reredoss.
.
FW 258.7: Go to, let us extol Azrael with our harks,
. by our brews, on our *JAMBses* , in his gaits.
FW 280.24: Get my Prize, using her Le hélos tombaut
. flower or perfume or, if VERyVERyVERy chum-soul
. sur la *JAMBE* ming, in otherwards,
FW 287.21: antiquissimam flaminum amborium Jordani et *JAMBaptistae*
. mentibus revolvamus sapientiam: totum tute fluvii modo mundo fluere,
.
FW 366.18: oddrabbit, upon EVERy strong ground you have EVER taken up,
. by bitterstiff work or battonstaff play, with assault of TURK
. against a barrakraval of grakeshoots, e'en tho' *JAMBuwel's* defe-
. calties is Terry Shimmyrag's upperturnity, if that is grace for tbe
. grass what is balm for the bramblers, as it is as it is, that I AM
.
FW 422.28: liliens of the veldt, Nancy Nickies and Folletta
*LaJAMBE* !
.
FW 471.17: you'd think it was that moment they gave him the *JAMBos* !
.
FW 478.20: Whu's teit dans yur *JAMBs* ?
. Whur's that inclining and talkin about the messiah
. so clooVER? A TRUE's to your trefling! Whure yu!
.
FW 513.9: And JAMBs, of Delphin's Bourne or (as olders lay) of Tophat?
FW 550.29: she had dabblingtime for exhibiting her grace of
. *alJAMBras* and duncingk the bloodanoobs in her vaux-halls
. while I, dizzed and dazed by the lumpty thumpty
.
FW 596.24: place inspectorum sarchent; also the hullow chyst ex-
. cavement; astronomically fabulafigured;
. as *JAMBudvispa* Vipra foresaw of him;
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. _Ulysses_
30.49: Acatalectic tetrameter of *IAMBs* marching. No, agallop:
170.11: *Puck* Mulligan, panamahelmeted, went step by step,
*IAMBing* , trolling:
401.21: *SJAMBokhim* !
563.9: What proposal did Bloom, *dIAMBulist* , father of Milly,
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: "While he smoked
. the brim of his tall hat and the bowl of his pipe were
. just visible beyond the *JAMBs* of the OUThouse door"
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<<During the period when John Shakespeare was keeping the accounts,
the Gild chapel was defaced. Near its orchard border of sundried
clay, workmen moved into the chapel to see its painted walls
with legends - the town's old Catholic poetry:
.
[W]HEN ERTH UPON ERTH HATH BYLDED HIS BOWERS THEN
[S]HALL ERTH FOR ERTH SUFFER MANY HARD SHOWERS
.
Over the chancel arch was a Doom, or Last Judgement, with
the Virgin in blue and St.John in bright brown. Heaven was
a palace with St. Peter in a red alb and green cope,
and burning souls fell throught a hell mouth into a cauldron.
A crucifixion rose on the south wall, and on *JAMBs*
for the tower arch were Thomas a Becket and the names
of his murderers.
.
After the Doom had been WHITEWASHED, for which the workmen
were paid 2s., but before the rood loft was taken down
and seats were installed for the vicar and his clerk,
the acting CHAMBERLAIN's account noted on 10 January 1564:
.
. "Item payd for defasying images in ye chappell ijs">>
. - _Shakespeare a Life_ by Honan
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*IAMB* n : a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables
.
. [J]o------[I]
. [A]my [A.]
. [M]eg [M.]
. [B]eth -- [B]arnard
.
*JAMB* , n. [Prov. E. jaumb, jaum, F. *JAMBE* a leg, JAMBE de force
a principal rafter.] 1. (Arch) The vertical side of any opening,
as a door or fireplace; hence, less properly, any narrow vertical
surface of wall, as the of a chimney-breast or of a pier,
as distinguished from its face. --G[WILT].
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. I: A. M. BARNARD
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<<Louisa May Alcott is best known for Little Women which she wrote
in two parts. The first volume, alternately titled Meg, Jo, Beth, &
Amy, was published in 1868, and the second volume, Good Wives,
was published in 1869. Like Jo in Little Women, Louisa also wrote
many "blood & thunder" tales, which were published in popular
periodicals of the day. She did not openly claim authorship
for many of these Gothic thriller stories, however:
for some, she used the pseudonym, "A. M. BARNARD".>>
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. The 8 lesser Inns of Chancery:
. -- Thavies', Furnival's, BARNARD's,
. Staple, Clifford's, Clement's, New, Lyon's
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. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens: Chapter 21
.
<<`Yes, I know him. I know him! ' There was an air of toleration or
depreciation about his utterance of these words, that rather depressed
me; and I was still looking sideways at his block of a face in search
of any encouraging note to the text, when he said here we were at
BARNARD's INN. My depression was not alleviated by the announcement,
for, I had supposed that establishment to be an hotel kept
by Mr BARNARD, to which the BLUE BOAR in our town
was a mere public-house. Whereas I now found BARNARD
to be a disembodied spirit, or a fiction, and his inn the
dingiest collection of shabby buildings ever squeezed together in
a rank corner as a club for Tom-cats. We entered this haven through a
wicket-gate, and were dis- gorged by an introductory passage into a
melancholy little square that looked to me like a flat burying-ground.
I thought it had the most dismal trees in it, and the most dismal
sparrows, and the most dismal cats, and the most dismal houses (in
number half a dozen or so), that I had ever seen. I thought the
windows of the sets of chambers into which those houses were divided,
were in every stage of dilapidated blind and curtain, crippled
flower-pot, cracked glass, dusty decay, and miserable makeshift;
while To Let To Let To Let, glared at me from empty rooms,
as if no new wretches ever came there, and the vengeance
of the soul of BARNARD were being slowly appeased by the gradual
suicide of the present occupants and their unholy interment under
the gravel. A frouzy mourning of soot and smoke attired this
forlorn creation of BARNARD and it had strewn ashes on its head,
and was undergoing penance and humiliation as a mere dust-hole.
Thus far my sense of sight;
while dry rot and wet rot and all the silent rots
that rot in neglected roof and cellar -- rot of rat and mouse and
bug and coaching-stables near at hand besides -- addressed themselves
faintly to my sense of smell, and moaned, `Try BARNARD's Mixture.' So
imperfect was this realization of the first of my great expecta-tions,
that I looked in dismay at Mr Wemmick. `Ah!' said he, mistaking me;
`the retirement reminds you of the country. So it does me.' He led me
into a corner and conducted me up a flight of stairs -- which appeared
to me to be slowly collapsing into sawdust, so that one of those days
the upper lodgers would look out at their doors and find themselves
without the means of coming down -- to a set of chambers on
the top floor. MR. POCKET, JUN., was painted on the door,
and there was a label on the letter-box, `Return shortly.'>>
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ttp://www.bartleby.com/312/0405.html
<<This was the house which Nicolas Flamel had built, in which he died
about 1417, and which, uninhabited ever since, was beginning to fall
into decay, so much had the Hermetics and Alchemists from all the ends
of the world worn away its walls by merely engraving their names upon
them. Some of the neighbours even declared how, through a hole in the
wall, they had seen the Archdeacon digging and turning over the earth
in
those two cellars, of which the door-JAMBs had been scrawled over with
innumerable verses and hieroglyphics by Nicolas Flamel himself. It was
supposed that Flamel had buried here the philosopher?s stone; and for
two centuries the Alchemists, from Magistri to Père Pacifique, never
ceased to burrow in that ground, till at last the house, so cruelly
ransacked and undermined, crumbled into dust under their feet.>>
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. MINARET OF JAM* (Afghanistan) Ghurid period 12th century
http://library.thinkquest.org/17137/Main/Art_Arch/Minarets/examples3....
. http://www.afghan.org/pic5.htm
.
<<In a lonely, remote valley, closely surrounded on all sides by
towering barren mountains stands the 213 foot high Minaret of Jam,
at the southern bank of the Hari Rod River. Only the Qutob Minar
in Delhi, built by Qutbudin after conquering India, is higher.
It is the only well preserved architectural monument
from the Ghorid period. This minaret, originally
associated with the Great Mosque at Firuz Koh, now stands
alone on the Hari Rud River in Afghanistan. A double spiral staircase
leads from the octagonal shaped base to the top of the circular shape.
The tower contains kufic calligraphy, carved in stucco and highlighted
with turquoise ceramics surrounding geometric designs. It contains
several balconies and a lantern at the top of the minaret. The
decorations and the proportional brick constructions make the
minaret an outstanding example of 12th century architecture.>>
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. 213 foot high Minarets of St. Paul's
. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=66613
.
<<Saint Paul's Cathedral in London, cathedral of the Anglican bishop.
. It is located atop Ludgate Hill and northeast of Blackfriars.>>
.
<<St. Paul's famous dome, which has long dominated the London skyline,
. is composed of three shells. The cross atop its outer dome stands
nearly 366 feet above ground level (some 356 feet above the main floor
Framing the western facade, twin bell towers rise nearly 213 feet
above the floor. From the western steps to the eastern Apse,
. St. Paul's total length is 555 feet.>>
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1) bell towers: 213 ft. 2) cross: 365+ ft. 3) total length: 555
ft.
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1) bell towers: 213 ft. => 2) cross: 365+ ft.
(213 x 213 x 213)
+(214 x 214 x 214)
+(215 x 215 x 215)
+ . . .
+(364 x 364 x 364)
+(365 x 365 x 365)
-------------------------------
(31 x 31 x 31)x(51 x 51 x 51)
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1) bell towers: 213 ft. => 3) total length: 555 ft.
(213 x 213 x 213)
+(214 x 214 x 214)
+(215 x 215 x 215)
+ . . .
+(554 x 554 x 554)
+(555 x 555 x 555)
-------------------------------
(56 x 56 x 56)x(51 x 51 x 51)
August 1(day 213), 1714: Queen Anne died. She had many children with
her husband Prince George of Denmark, but none lived to adulthood,
and the throne passed to her Protestant second cousin the German
princeling George Louis of Hanover, who arrived at Greenwich
September 30 (day 273) as King George I.
(273 x 273 x 273)
+(274 x 274 x 274)
+(275 x 275 x 275)
+ . . .
+(559 x 559 x 559)
+(560 x 560 x 560)
-------------------------------
(56 x 56 x 56)x(51 x 51 x 51)
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. LAMMAS(-EVE) August 1 (day 213)
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. Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene 3
.
Nurse: Even or odd, of all days in the year,
. Come LAMMAS-EVE at night shall she be fourteen.
. SUSAN and she--God rest all Christian souls!--
. Were of an age: well, SUSAN is with God;
. She was too good for me: but, as I said,
. On LAMMAS-EVE at night shall she be fourteen;
. That shall she, marry; I remember it well.
. 'Tis since the EARTHQUAKE now ELEVEN years;
. And she was wean'd,--I nEVER shall forget it,--
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Art Neuendorffer
. Brincknell Inquest 1567
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~ahnelson/DOCS/brinck.html
.
. "[E]dwardus [C]omes [O]xon{iensis}"
.
*ECHO* : [ECO] (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese)
-----------------------------------------------------
. Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 2
.
JULIET: Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud;
. Else would I tear the CAVE wHERE *ECHO* lies,
. And make her AIRY tongue more hoarse than mine,
. With repetition of my Rom{EO}'s name.
...............................................
. Help *ECHO* that in AIR doth flee,
. shrill voices to resound,
. To wail this LOSS of my good name,
. as of these griefs the ground. -- {E.O.}
-------------------------------------------------------
<<*EChO* was a nymph who was a great singer & dancer and scorned the
love of any man. This angered Pan, a lecherous god, and he instructed
his followers to kill her. *EChO* was torn to pieces and spread all
over earth. The goddess of the earth, Gaia, received the pieces
of *EChO*, whose voice remains repeating the last words of others.
In some versions, *EChO* & Pan first had one child: *IAMBE* .>>
....................................................
*IAMB* : A metrical foot in verse consisting of an
unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
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Yet who doth most adore this sight, oh hollow CAVEs tell TRUE ? You.
What NYMPH DEsERVEs his liking best, yet doth in sorrow rue ? You.
What makes him not reward good will with some reward or ruth ? Youth.
What makes him show besides his birth,
such pride and such unTRUTH? Youth.
May I his favour match with love, if he my love will try? Ay.
May I requite his birth with faith ? Then faithful will I die? Ay.
And I, that knew this lady well,
Said, Lord how great a miracle,
To her how *ECHO told the TRUTH* ,
*AS TRUE AS PHOEBUS' oracle* . - The Earle of Oxforde.
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_Hamlet_ translation by Eleanor Rowe 1946
[T]he rumbling has grown quiet. I walk out on the stage.
[L]eaning against a door *JAMB* ,
[I] try to catch in a distant *ECHO*
[W]hat will happen in my lifetime.
At me is aimed the murkiness of night;
I'm pinned by a thousand opera glasses.
If only it is possible, Abba, Father,
May this cup be carried past me.
I cherish your stubborn design
And am agreed to play this role.
But now a different drama is underway;
This time, release me.
[B]ut the order of the acts has been determined,
[A]nd the ending of the journey cannot be averted.
[I]]am alone; all drowns in Pharisiasm.
[T]o live life is not to cross a field.
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<<On the tenth day, Demeter went to Eleusis in disguise. There King
Celeus & Queen Metaneira entertained her and graciously offered her
the position of wet-nurse to their son Demophoon. *IAMBE*, the LAME
princess, tried to cheer Demeter up with silly lascivious verses.
Baubo, the dry nurse, joined her in a joke too. (The three of them
formed a Triple-Goddess.) Then, an elder son of Celeus, Abas,
accused Demeter of greediness while she drank barley-water.
Without thinking, Demeter threw him a grim look, and
turned him into a lizard. Later, she felt bad, and decided to
make Demophoon immortal. She put him in her sacred fire, chanting,
to burn away his mortality. Unfortunately, Metaneira came in
before the ceremony was complete, and Demophoon died. Now that was two
sons dead by a goddesses hand, and Celeus began to think his house was
cursed. In his weeping his name got changed to Dysaules (which means
"of an unlucky house"), and Demeter told him to stop weeping, because
she would bestow many gifts upon his third son Triptolemus.
Triptolemus was the one who told her the information
she needed about Persephone.
http://www.paleothea.com/SortaSingles/Demeter.html
-----------------------------------------------------------
<<It is said that Demeter disguised herself as an old,
haggardly dressed woman. She came upon the house of the great King
Celeus at Eleusis, and there was greeted with great honor. The Queen
Metaneira offered the disguised Demeter a chair, but she refused.
Only when the cheerful servant IAMBE placed a silVERy ram's fleece on
the chair, did Demeter sit down. She was then offered something to
drink, but again, she would only accept some barley water from the
servant IAMBE, who made her feel happy for the first time in a long
time. This act is symbolic of communion; as commemorating
the sorrow of the goddess.
The drinking of the 'potion' is one of the most important rituals
in the Eleusinian mysteries. Then Queen Metaneira bade Demeter
to take her son Demophoon to her breast and to nurse him. She too,
however, stopped the immortalizing ritual which Demeter was to
perform. Demeter once again scolded Queen Metaneira for her cruelty.
Then Demeter released herself from her disguise,
and stood in the palace in all of her splendor.
King Celeus proclaimed that a temple should be built in honor
of the great nurturing goddess, where many top secret rituals
would be performed in her honor.>>
http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/imageswomen/papers/paolicchidemeter/dem...
-----------------------------------------------------------
III. THE VISIT TO ELEUSIS by Demeter.
Taking the form of an old woman (crone), Demeter sits down to rest
near a well called Parthenion (`Maiden'), where she is approached
by the daughters of King Celeus, who have come to fetch water.
They treat the disguised goddess sympathetically, and invite her to
come to the Palace, since their mother needs a nanny for their young
brother; the most amusing of the girls is IAMBE (`IAMBic verse').
Offered hospitality, Demeter refuses wine, but accepts a drink called
kykeion (barley water with pennyroyal). Queen METANEIRA is impressed
with the `woman' and gives her employment. Demeter anoints the baby
Demopho(o)n every evening with ambrosia, and puts the baby in the fire
of the hearth to burn away its mortality. But one evening Metaneira
spies on Demeter and interrupts the rite. Demeter drops the child in
surprise, resumes her divine form, and rebukes Metaneira for
interfering with divine secrets which would have made
the baby immortal. But Demeter does promise to teach her
sacred rituals to the Eleusinians.
http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/demeter1.html
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*VÆRE* : *TO BE* (Danish)
*JEG ER* , William : *I AM THAT I AM* publisher
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. Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, Bk I, Aph.120.
.
<<Existence, or pure Being, is the divine Word. It simply is. The
cabalistic formula for this is the expression, 'I AM'. Just as the
image of sound is its ECHO, so the image of existence is the knowledge
of that existence-self-consciousness, in other words. There are two
basic types of consciousness: INNOCENT or pure consciousness that
contains the wisdom but doesn't yet know it, and self-consciousness or
self-knowledge that does know. Pure consciousness is associated with
the pure but INNOCENT intelligence-the intelligence of the heart-which
has the capacity to know the wisdom that exists within it as its life
or being, but as yet is ignorant of it and what it means. . .
We might say, 'Oh, but I knew that already!' However, the reality is
that we did not know it before, as such, and yet we had the TRUTH of
it already in our hearts. We needed something, however, to wake it
up and bring it to our mind as knowledge of that TRUTH.
The cabalistic name for this knowledge, image or ECHO is 'THAT':
. hence the complete formula or god-name for both the
. Holy Trinity and the Son of God is 'I AM That I AM'.
. In HEBREW this is rendered by 'AHIH Asher AHIH'.
.
AHIH refers to 'the Living God' ('I AM'), the parent of 'That'.
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. `Twopence a week, and JAM EVERy other day.'
.
Alice couldn't help laughing, as she said,
`I don't want you to hire ME--and I don't care for JAM.'
.
. `It's VERy good JAM,' said the Queen.
.
`Well, I don't want any TO-DAY, at any rate.'
.
`You couldn't have it if you DID want it,' the Queen said.
.
. `The rule is,
JAM to-morrow and JAM yesterday--but nEVER JAM to-day.'
.
`It MUST come sometimes to "JAM to-day,"' Alice objected.
.
`No, it can't,' said the Queen. `It's JAM EVERy OTHER day:
. to-day isn't any OTHER day, you know.'
.
`I don't understand you,' said Alice. `It's dreadfully confusing!'
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*IAMBus* , n.; pl. L. {IAMBi}, E. {IAMBuses}.
[L. IAMBus, Gr. ?; prob. akin to ? to throw, assail
(the IAMBus being first used in satiric poetry),
. and to L. jacere to throw. Cf. {Jet} a shooting forth.] (Pros.)
A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in
[a^]m[=a]ns, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one,
as invent; an IAMBic. See the Couplet under {IAMBic}, n.
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FW 27.17: Were I a clerk designate to the Williams-woodsmenufactors
. I'd poster those pouters on *EVERy JAMB* in the town.
.
FW 68.1: Luperca Latouche, finding one day while dodging chores
. that she stripped teasily for binocu-lar man
. and that her *JAMBs* were jimpjoyed to see each other,
.
FW 117.10: From quiqui quinet to michemiche chelet and
. a *JAMBebatiste* to a brulobrulo! It is told in sounds
in utter that, in signs so adds to, in universal,
FW 155.4: -- Your *TEMPLE, SUS* in cribro!
SemperexcommunicambIAMBi-sumers.
FW 199.17: Sikiang sukry or his ale of ferns in TRUEart pewter and
. a shin-kobread ( *hamJAMBo* , bana?) for to plaise that man
. HOG stay his stomicker till her pyrraknees shrunk to nutmeg
. graters while her togglejoints shuck with goyt and as rash
. as she'd russ with her peakload of viVERS up on her sieve
.
FW 228.25: EVERy monk his own cashel where EVERy little ligger
.is his own liogotenente with inclined *JAMBs* in full purview
. to his pronaose and to the deretane at his reredoss.
.
FW 258.7: Go to, let us extol Azrael with our harks,
. by our brews, on our *JAMBses* , in his gaits.
FW 280.24: Get my Prize, using her Le hélos tombaut
. flower or perfume or, if VERyVERyVERy chum-soul
. sur la *JAMBE* ming, in otherwards,
FW 287.21: antiquissimam flaminum amborium Jordani et *JAMBaptistae*
. mentibus revolvamus sapientiam: totum tute fluvii modo mundo fluere,
.
FW 366.18: oddrabbit, upon EVERy strong ground you have EVER taken up,
. by bitterstiff work or battonstaff play, with assault of TURK
. against a barrakraval of grakeshoots, e'en tho' *JAMBuwel's* defe-
. calties is Terry Shimmyrag's upperturnity, if that is grace for tbe
. grass what is balm for the bramblers, as it is as it is, that I AM
.
FW 422.28: liliens of the veldt, Nancy Nickies and Folletta
*LaJAMBE* !
.
FW 471.17: you'd think it was that moment they gave him the *JAMBos* !
.
FW 478.20: Whu's teit dans yur *JAMBs* ?
. Whur's that inclining and talkin about the messiah
. so clooVER? A TRUE's to your trefling! Whure yu!
.
FW 513.9: And JAMBs, of Delphin's Bourne or (as olders lay) of Tophat?
FW 550.29: she had dabblingtime for exhibiting her grace of
. *alJAMBras* and duncingk the bloodanoobs in her vaux-halls
. while I, dizzed and dazed by the lumpty thumpty
.
FW 596.24: place inspectorum sarchent; also the hullow chyst ex-
. cavement; astronomically fabulafigured;
. as *JAMBudvispa* Vipra foresaw of him;
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. _Ulysses_
30.49: Acatalectic tetrameter of *IAMBs* marching. No, agallop:
170.11: *Puck* Mulligan, panamahelmeted, went step by step,
*IAMBing* , trolling:
401.21: *SJAMBokhim* !
563.9: What proposal did Bloom, *dIAMBulist* , father of Milly,
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: "While he smoked
. the brim of his tall hat and the bowl of his pipe were
. just visible beyond the *JAMBs* of the OUThouse door"
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<<During the period when John Shakespeare was keeping the accounts,
the Gild chapel was defaced. Near its orchard border of sundried
clay, workmen moved into the chapel to see its painted walls
with legends - the town's old Catholic poetry:
.
[W]HEN ERTH UPON ERTH HATH BYLDED HIS BOWERS THEN
[S]HALL ERTH FOR ERTH SUFFER MANY HARD SHOWERS
.
Over the chancel arch was a Doom, or Last Judgement, with
the Virgin in blue and St.John in bright brown. Heaven was
a palace with St. Peter in a red alb and green cope,
and burning souls fell throught a hell mouth into a cauldron.
A crucifixion rose on the south wall, and on *JAMBs*
for the tower arch were Thomas a Becket and the names
of his murderers.
.
After the Doom had been WHITEWASHED, for which the workmen
were paid 2s., but before the rood loft was taken down
and seats were installed for the vicar and his clerk,
the acting CHAMBERLAIN's account noted on 10 January 1564:
.
. "Item payd for defasying images in ye chappell ijs">>
. - _Shakespeare a Life_ by Honan
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*IAMB* n : a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables
.
. [J]o------[I]
. [A]my [A.]
. [M]eg [M.]
. [B]eth -- [B]arnard
.
*JAMB* , n. [Prov. E. jaumb, jaum, F. *JAMBE* a leg, JAMBE de force
a principal rafter.] 1. (Arch) The vertical side of any opening,
as a door or fireplace; hence, less properly, any narrow vertical
surface of wall, as the of a chimney-breast or of a pier,
as distinguished from its face. --G[WILT].
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. I: A. M. BARNARD
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<<Louisa May Alcott is best known for Little Women which she wrote
in two parts. The first volume, alternately titled Meg, Jo, Beth, &
Amy, was published in 1868, and the second volume, Good Wives,
was published in 1869. Like Jo in Little Women, Louisa also wrote
many "blood & thunder" tales, which were published in popular
periodicals of the day. She did not openly claim authorship
for many of these Gothic thriller stories, however:
for some, she used the pseudonym, "A. M. BARNARD".>>
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. The 8 lesser Inns of Chancery:
. -- Thavies', Furnival's, BARNARD's,
. Staple, Clifford's, Clement's, New, Lyon's
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. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens: Chapter 21
.
<<`Yes, I know him. I know him! ' There was an air of toleration or
depreciation about his utterance of these words, that rather depressed
me; and I was still looking sideways at his block of a face in search
of any encouraging note to the text, when he said here we were at
BARNARD's INN. My depression was not alleviated by the announcement,
for, I had supposed that establishment to be an hotel kept
by Mr BARNARD, to which the BLUE BOAR in our town
was a mere public-house. Whereas I now found BARNARD
to be a disembodied spirit, or a fiction, and his inn the
dingiest collection of shabby buildings ever squeezed together in
a rank corner as a club for Tom-cats. We entered this haven through a
wicket-gate, and were dis- gorged by an introductory passage into a
melancholy little square that looked to me like a flat burying-ground.
I thought it had the most dismal trees in it, and the most dismal
sparrows, and the most dismal cats, and the most dismal houses (in
number half a dozen or so), that I had ever seen. I thought the
windows of the sets of chambers into which those houses were divided,
were in every stage of dilapidated blind and curtain, crippled
flower-pot, cracked glass, dusty decay, and miserable makeshift;
while To Let To Let To Let, glared at me from empty rooms,
as if no new wretches ever came there, and the vengeance
of the soul of BARNARD were being slowly appeased by the gradual
suicide of the present occupants and their unholy interment under
the gravel. A frouzy mourning of soot and smoke attired this
forlorn creation of BARNARD and it had strewn ashes on its head,
and was undergoing penance and humiliation as a mere dust-hole.
Thus far my sense of sight;
while dry rot and wet rot and all the silent rots
that rot in neglected roof and cellar -- rot of rat and mouse and
bug and coaching-stables near at hand besides -- addressed themselves
faintly to my sense of smell, and moaned, `Try BARNARD's Mixture.' So
imperfect was this realization of the first of my great expecta-tions,
that I looked in dismay at Mr Wemmick. `Ah!' said he, mistaking me;
`the retirement reminds you of the country. So it does me.' He led me
into a corner and conducted me up a flight of stairs -- which appeared
to me to be slowly collapsing into sawdust, so that one of those days
the upper lodgers would look out at their doors and find themselves
without the means of coming down -- to a set of chambers on
the top floor. MR. POCKET, JUN., was painted on the door,
and there was a label on the letter-box, `Return shortly.'>>
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ttp://www.bartleby.com/312/0405.html
<<This was the house which Nicolas Flamel had built, in which he died
about 1417, and which, uninhabited ever since, was beginning to fall
into decay, so much had the Hermetics and Alchemists from all the ends
of the world worn away its walls by merely engraving their names upon
them. Some of the neighbours even declared how, through a hole in the
wall, they had seen the Archdeacon digging and turning over the earth
in
those two cellars, of which the door-JAMBs had been scrawled over with
innumerable verses and hieroglyphics by Nicolas Flamel himself. It was
supposed that Flamel had buried here the philosopher?s stone; and for
two centuries the Alchemists, from Magistri to Père Pacifique, never
ceased to burrow in that ground, till at last the house, so cruelly
ransacked and undermined, crumbled into dust under their feet.>>
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. MINARET OF JAM* (Afghanistan) Ghurid period 12th century
http://library.thinkquest.org/17137/Main/Art_Arch/Minarets/examples3....
. http://www.afghan.org/pic5.htm
.
<<In a lonely, remote valley, closely surrounded on all sides by
towering barren mountains stands the 213 foot high Minaret of Jam,
at the southern bank of the Hari Rod River. Only the Qutob Minar
in Delhi, built by Qutbudin after conquering India, is higher.
It is the only well preserved architectural monument
from the Ghorid period. This minaret, originally
associated with the Great Mosque at Firuz Koh, now stands
alone on the Hari Rud River in Afghanistan. A double spiral staircase
leads from the octagonal shaped base to the top of the circular shape.
The tower contains kufic calligraphy, carved in stucco and highlighted
with turquoise ceramics surrounding geometric designs. It contains
several balconies and a lantern at the top of the minaret. The
decorations and the proportional brick constructions make the
minaret an outstanding example of 12th century architecture.>>
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. 213 foot high Minarets of St. Paul's
. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=66613
.
<<Saint Paul's Cathedral in London, cathedral of the Anglican bishop.
. It is located atop Ludgate Hill and northeast of Blackfriars.>>
.
<<St. Paul's famous dome, which has long dominated the London skyline,
. is composed of three shells. The cross atop its outer dome stands
nearly 366 feet above ground level (some 356 feet above the main floor
Framing the western facade, twin bell towers rise nearly 213 feet
above the floor. From the western steps to the eastern Apse,
. St. Paul's total length is 555 feet.>>
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1) bell towers: 213 ft. 2) cross: 365+ ft. 3) total length: 555
ft.
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1) bell towers: 213 ft. => 2) cross: 365+ ft.
(213 x 213 x 213)
+(214 x 214 x 214)
+(215 x 215 x 215)
+ . . .
+(364 x 364 x 364)
+(365 x 365 x 365)
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(31 x 31 x 31)x(51 x 51 x 51)
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1) bell towers: 213 ft. => 3) total length: 555 ft.
(213 x 213 x 213)
+(214 x 214 x 214)
+(215 x 215 x 215)
+ . . .
+(554 x 554 x 554)
+(555 x 555 x 555)
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(56 x 56 x 56)x(51 x 51 x 51)
August 1(day 213), 1714: Queen Anne died. She had many children with
her husband Prince George of Denmark, but none lived to adulthood,
and the throne passed to her Protestant second cousin the German
princeling George Louis of Hanover, who arrived at Greenwich
September 30 (day 273) as King George I.
(273 x 273 x 273)
+(274 x 274 x 274)
+(275 x 275 x 275)
+ . . .
+(559 x 559 x 559)
+(560 x 560 x 560)
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(56 x 56 x 56)x(51 x 51 x 51)
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. LAMMAS(-EVE) August 1 (day 213)
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. Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene 3
.
Nurse: Even or odd, of all days in the year,
. Come LAMMAS-EVE at night shall she be fourteen.
. SUSAN and she--God rest all Christian souls!--
. Were of an age: well, SUSAN is with God;
. She was too good for me: but, as I said,
. On LAMMAS-EVE at night shall she be fourteen;
. That shall she, marry; I remember it well.
. 'Tis since the EARTHQUAKE now ELEVEN years;
. And she was wean'd,--I nEVER shall forget it,--
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Art Neuendorffer
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