humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare
back to index
From: Art Neuendorffer
Date: Monday, April 07, 2008 2:58 PM
Subject: "E.O., numeral idiot"
nordicskiv2
> "Romeo and Iuliet" is an anagram of
> "E.O., numeral idiot," a phrase
> that might well be your signature.
--------------------------------------------------
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
XI. The Poetry of Spenser. =A7 6. The Shepheards Calender.
=2E
<
fowling net, fortunately without his bow and arrows. The eclogue
concludes, as usual, with emblems chosen by the two speakers. The
epigrammatic terseness of Bion, whose idyll is contained in sixteen
lines, is lost in Spenser's diffuse description, which runs to *one
hundred and seventeen*.>>
--------------------------------------------------
=2E Sonnet 117
=2E
Accuse me thus, that I haue *SCANTED* all,
Wherein I should your great *DESERTs* repay,
--------------------------------------------------
=2E King Lear Act 2, Scene 4
=2E
REGAN: You less know how to value her *DESERT*
=2E Than she to *SCANT* her duty.
-----------------------------------------------------
*SCANT* , v. t., 1. To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally;
to stint; as, to scant one in provisions;
to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.
=2E
Where a man hath a great living laid together
_______ and where he is *SCANTED* . --Bacon.
=2E
I am *SCANTED* in the pleasure of dwelling on your actions. --Dryden.
=2E
2. To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail.
-------------------------------------------------
=2E Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Act 5, Scene 2
=2E
QUEEN GERTRUDE: [Hamlet]'s fat, and *SCANT* of breath.
------------------------------------------------
=2E King Lear Act 1, Scene 1
=2E
GONERIL: Let your study
Be to content your lord, who hath received you
At fortune's ALMS. You have obedience *SCANTED* ,
And well are worth the want that you have wanted.
=2E.................................................
_______ *DE CERVANTES*
_________ {anagram}
_______ *SCANT DE VERE*
_______ *SCANTED VERE*
-------------------------------------------------------
Don Quixote, Part 1. Shelton translation The Fourth Book
I. Wherein Is Discoursed the New and Pleasant Adventure
That Happened to the Curate and the Barber in Sierra Morena
=2E
MOST happy and fortunate were those times wherein the thrice audacious
and bold knight, Don Quixote of the Mancha, was bestowed on the world,
by whose most honourable resolution to revive and renew in it the
already worn-out and well-night deceased exercise of arms, we joy in
this our so niggard and *SCANT an age* of all pastimes, not only the
sweetness of his *TRUE history* , but also of the other tales and
digressions contained therein, which are in some respects no less
pleasing, artificial, and *TRUE* than the *VERy* history itself;
the which, prosecuting the CARDed, spun, and self-twined thread of
the relation, says that, as the curate began to bethink himself
upon some answer that might both comfort and animate *CARDENIO* ,
he was hindered by a voice which came to his hearing,
said *VERy* dolefully the words ensuing:
=2E
'O God! is it possible that I have yet found out the place
which may sERVE for a hidden sepulchre to the load of
this loathsome body that I unwillingly bear so long'
--------------------------------------------------
=2E The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
=2E
Now, look at that third name. Just read it out to me."
=2E
"Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes.
=2E..........................................
=2E The Crooked Man
=2E
"The first battalion of the Royal Munsters
(which is the old 117th) has been
stationed at Aldershot for some years.
=2E..........................................
Arthur Conan Doyle =BB The Great Boer War =BB Chapter 24
Chapter 24 THE SIEGE OF MAFEKING
A few burghers slipped away in twos and threes,
but the main body found that they had rushed into a prison
from which the only egress was swept with rifle fire. At seven
o'clock in the evening they recognised that their position was
hopeless, and Eloff with 117 men laid down their arms.
--------------------------------------------------
=2E William Makepeace Thackeray =BB Burlesques =BB Chapter 8
=2E
I took the swivel, and aimed coolly. Loll Mahommed, his palanquin, and
his men, were now not above two hundred yards from the fort. Loll was
straight before me, gesticulating and shouting to his men. I fired--
bang! ! ! I aimed so true, that *one hundred and seventeen* best
Spanish olives were lodged in a lump in the face of the unhappy Loll
Mahommed.
-----------------------------
Pentagonal numbers: n(3n-1)/2.
=2E.........................
n a(n)
0 0
1 1
2 5
3 12
4 22
5 35
6 51
7 70
8 92
=2E..........................
9 117
=2E..........................
10 145
11 176
12 210
13 247
14 287
15 330
------------------------------
115.88 days =3D 1 Mercury synod
=2E..........................
116.784 days =3D 1/5 Venus synod
116.994 days =3D 0.15 Mars synod
=2E..........................
583.92 days =3D 1 Venus synod
584.97 days =3D 3/4 Mars synod
------------------------------
Mars synodic period =3D 780 days =3D 5 x [39 x 4]
=2E..........................
http://www.gemworld.com/Symbols/WashDC--Photo--Pentagram.jpg
=2E..........................
Every 6.4 years Mars & Venus rendez-vous
behind the sun (hiding from Vulcan?):
=2E.........................
2335.68 days 4 Venus synods
2339.88 days 3 Mars synods
-----------------------------
2919.60 days 5 Venus synods
2920.00 days 8 (365 day) years
2921.84 days 8 years
=2E.........................
11678.40 days 20 Venus synods
11680.00 days 32 (365 day) years
11687.36 days 32 years
11699.40 days 15 Mars synods
=2E.........................
14598.00 days 25 Venus synods
14600.00 days 40 (365 day) years
14600.88 days 126 Mercury synods
14609.20 days 40 years
-----------------------------
Mercury - Venus - Mars aligned at sunset
=2E..................................
Sat 1521 Apr 27 10:00 UTC [18:00 local (Philippine)]
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar
=2E
=2E Right Distance From 10=B0N 124=B0E:
=2E Ascension Declination (AU) Altitude Azimuth
Sun 2h 54m 15s +16=B0 41.1' 1.011 -1.876 107.305 Set
Mercury 4h 13m 23s +23=B0 37.2' 1.025 17.427 111.782 Up
Venus 5h 56m 7s +26=B0 6.2' 0.936 40.549 115.921 Up
Mars 9h 2m 22s +18=B0 51.1' 1.369 80.687 162.209 Up
------------------------------
April 27, 1521 : Ferdinand Magellan killed (on 117th day)
1521 =3D 13 x 117 =3D 39 x 39
=2E
<
a wealthy tourist who paid to be on the Magellan voyage, provided
the only extant eyewitness account of the events culminating
in Magellan's death, as follows:
"An Indian hurled a bamboo spear into the captain's face, but
the latter immediately killed him with his lance, which he left in
the Indian's body. Then, trying to lay hand on sword, he could draw it
out but halfway, because he had been wounded in the arm with a bamboo
spear. When the natives saw that, they all hurled themselves upon him.
One of them wounded him on the left leg with a large cutlass, which
resembles a scimitar, only being larger. That caused the captain to
fall face downward, when immediately they rushed upon him with iron
& bamboo spears and with their cutlasses, until they killed our
mirror,
our light, our comfort, and our true guide. When they wounded him,
he turned back many times to see whether we were all in the boats.
Thereupon, beholding him dead, we, wounded, retreated, as best
we could, to the boats, which were already pulling off.">>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mactan_Island
------------------------------
Art Neuendorffer
