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Chapter 11: "Peter and Paul"
_Sylvie and Bruno_ by Lewis Carroll
'Peter is poor,' said noble Paul,
'And I have always been his friend:
And, though my means to give are small,
At least I can afford to lend.
How few, in this cold age of greed,
Do good, except on selfish grounds!
But I can feel for Peter's need,
And I WILL LEND HIM FIFTY POUNDS!'
How great was Peter's joy to find
His friend in such a genial vein!
How cheerfully the bond he signed,
To pay the money back again!
'We ca'n't,' said Paul, 'be too precise:
'Tis best to fix the very day:
So, by a learned friend's advice,
I've made it Noon, the Fourth of May.'
But this is April! Peter said.
'The First of April, as I think.
Five little weeks will soon be fled:
One scarcely will have time to wink!
Give me a year to speculate--
To buy and sell--to drive a trade--'
Said Paul 'I cannot change the date.
On May the Fourth it must be paid.'
'Well, well!' said Peter, with a sigh.
'Hand me the cash, and I will go.
I'll form a Joint-Stock Company,
And turn an honest pound or so.'
'I'm grieved,' said Paul, 'to seem unkind:
The money shalt of course be lent:
But, for a week or two, I find
It will not be convenient.'
So, week by week, poor Peter came
And turned in heaviness away;
For still the answer was the same,
'I cannot manage it to-day.'
And now the April showers were dry--
The five short weeks were nearly spent--
Yet still he got the old reply,
'It is not quite convenient!'
The Fourth arrived, and punctual Paul
Came, with his legal friend, at noon.
'I thought it best,' said he, 'to call:
One cannot settle things too soon.'
Poor Peter shuddered in despair:
His flowing locks he wildly tore:
And very soon his yellow hair
Was lying all about the floor.
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http://www.kellerbook.com/Bridgoff1.htm
<<The Syon community has always been known & respected for its zeal
and its observance of the rule & contemplative ideals of St. Bridget.
St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher were friends of the Syon monk,
St. Richard Reynolds, who was one of the first to be martyred
at Tyburn, May 4, 1535. He is also called "The Angel of Syon".
In its exile, the community took with it a section of the old gateway.
It is believed that, as was the executioners' custom of the time,
parts of St. Richard's body were put on the gateway of the Abbey.
The community venerated it as a relic, and managed, even with its
tremendous weight, to take it with them on their journeys of exile.>>
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May 4, 1847 A Study in Scarlet
May 4, 1882 The Sign of the Four.
May 4, 1891 Reichenbach Falls Hiatus
May 4, 1889/99? The Hound of the Baskervilles
At the siege of *Sluys* young Sir Francis Vere greatly distinguished
himself under Sir *Roger Williams* & Sir Thomas *Baskerville* .
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The Names of the Principall Actors in all these Playes.
333 Letters [= 9 x 37 (plays)]
WilliamShakespeareRichardBurbadgeJ [o] hn
HemmingsAugustinePhillipsWilliamKe [m] pt
ThomasPoopeGeorgeBryanHenryCondell W il
liamSlyeRichardCowlyJohnLowineSamu e ll
CrosseAlexanderCookeSamuelGilburne R ob
ertArminWilliamOstlerNathanFieldJo h nU
nderwoodNicholasTooleyWilliamEccle s to
neJosephTaylorRobertBenfieldRobert [G] ou
gheRichardRobinsonJohnShanckeJohnR [i] ce
raw probability of "shReW" in 9 x 37 array ~ 1 / 5,000
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<<_A Merry [JEST] of a Shrewd and Curst WIFE Lapped in
Morel's Skin for her Good Behavior_ (c. 1560). The sub-plot of
romantic wooing bears a resemblance to Ariosto's _I Suppositi_
translated by George [G]asco[i]gne as _I Supposes_ (1566).>>
Good friend, for [JE]sus' sake, forbear
To dig the du[ST] enclosed here:
Blest be the man that spa[RE]s these stones,
And curst be he that mo[VE]s my bones.
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Jame Joyce's Ulysses' Bloomsday:
Actual Sunrise time: 3:33 LMT
Noontime Solar Declination: 23.33°
Height of Masonic Temple (1923): 333 feet
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NESTOR (Chapter II)
A shrew, John Eglinton said shrewdly, is not a useful portal
of discovery, one should imagine. What useful discovery did
Socrates learn from Xanthippe?
Maybe, like Socrates,
he had a midwife to mother as he had a shrew to wife.
STEPHEN We have shrewridden Shakespeare and henpecked Socrates.
Even the allwisest stagyrite was bitted, bridled
and mounted by a light of love.
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Judicio Pylium, genio Socratem, arte Maronem,
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Saint Mary Magdalene: feast of her translation: May 4.
May 4th [ 124th day of year with 241 days left.]
Peter Nockolds wrote:
<<In addition to the 4th May appearing in the
1st & 2nd Sherlock Holmes works (Study in Scarlet, Sign of Four)
the last adventure (of the Final Problem) before the hiatus
and the first work after the Haiatus (Baskervilles)
in the very first short story (_A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA_)
Irene Adler gets married in the church of St MONICA, feastday: May 4.>>
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each harMONICAl
has a point of its own,
Olaf's on the rise
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4 May 387 => Death of St. MONICA
4 May 1471 => Battle of TEWKESBURY
4 May 1483 => Edward V marches into London
4 May 1493 => Christopher Columbus granted Coat of Arms
FW: 'Crestofer Carambas! Such is zodisfaction.'
4 May 1535 => Richard Reynolds ("Angel of Syon") executed
4 May 1605 => Augustine Phillips' will
4 May 1699 => Gulliver sets sail from Bristol
FW: 'Heel trouble and heal travel.'
FW: 'Galliver and Gellover.'
FW: 'Shemuel Tulliver'
3 May 1707 => Henry Fielding born
6 May 1707 => Gulliver observes SUNRISE MERCURY TRANSIT
at Fort St. George, India.
3 May 1715 => London Total Solar Eclipse
FW: 'but are you solarly salemly sure,
FW: beyond the shatter of the canicular year?'
FW: 'If any lightfoot Clod Dewvale was to hold me up,
dicksturping me and marauding me of my rights'
4 May 1737 => Dick Turpin shoots Morris dead.
4 May 1786 => Mercury TRANSIT
FW: 'springapartings'
4 May 1799 => Storming of Seringapatam, India, [used in
opening of Wilkie Collins 'The Moonstone']
Mercury TRANSIT 7 May 1799
FW: Even the Lady Victoria Landauner
4 May 1840 => Edward Oxford buys guns to shoot Victoria.
FW: Victorias neanzas. Alberths neantas.
4 May 1847 => Jupiter / Venus & Nept/Mars conj.
4 May 1847 => A Study in Scarlet
John Ferrier & Lucy rescued by Mormons.
FW: 'debths in that mormon's thames'
FW: an Irish ferrier collar
FW: 'Alis, alas, she broke the glass!'
FW: 'Liddell lokker through the leafery,'
4 May 1852 => Alice Liddell born.
4 May 1859 => Alice's adventure in Wonderland.
FW: 'Though Wonderlawn's lost us for ever'
4 May 1882 => _Sign of Four_ Mary Morstan ad.
4 May 1882 => Jupiter/Venus & Merc/Nept/Satu conj.
4 May 1889 => Baskerville walks down yew alley?
4 May 1889 => Mercury/Mars conj.
FW: "Sherlook is lorking for him"
4 May 1891 => Sherlock Holmes "dies" at Reichenbach Falls.
FW: 'A conansdream of lodascircles, he here schlucefinis.'
Mercury TRANSIT 10 May 1891
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020509.html
4 May 1939 => Finnegans Wake first published.
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