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[capitalization]
No discernible pattern?
Uncapitalised nouns in the first paragraph include: shoes, slaps, afternoon, raer, years, table, side-benches, branch, family.
Capitalised abstract nouns include: Arcs, Sides, Descent, Dither, Fly.
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Nerve-Lines
If this is meant to imply branching dendrites, it's anachronistic.
Distance to a Star
Not until 1838.
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Boppo
Not in OED.
Tenebrae
Darkness (Latin).
size and difficulty
Cf "Lot 49"?
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Secret Relation
His journal?
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my name had never been my own
???