Chapter 9: 87-93
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"Bull's Eye"
(Pic?)
actually, twain
I think he's implying that it's not really in two pieces, but that the ends are no longer attached
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Elytra
[R] Leathery fore wings of Coleoptera, meeting in a straight line and serving as protective covers for the hind wings when at rest; unfolded in flight; jointed in families whose adults (imagines) are apterous and incapable of flying.
the English kiss
Flirting with Mason and his reticence re the amorous.
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Data of Biography
all that material excrescence which slaves see in handling our stuff.
lixiviated
Purified via lye-bath.
hangs there in Misery
Cf Buster Keaton's comic persona.
Beetle
(Pic?)
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Light?...hellish red
light darkening image that is right at home in ATD.
Kommando
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Droster Republick
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Cape Madeira... violet
CAPE MADEIRA" (Probably forged Madeira from South Africa.), a very heavy improperly made wine.
Transit of Venus
A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth, obscuring a small portion of the Sun's disk. During a transit, Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black disk moving across the face of the Sun. The duration of such transits is usually measured in hours (the transit of 2004 lasted six hours). A transit is similar to a solar eclipse by the Moon, but, although the diameter of Venus is almost 4 times that of the Moon, Venus appears much smaller because it is much farther away from Earth. Before the space age, observations of transits of Venus helped scientists using the parallax method to calculate the distance between the Sun and the Earth.
Venus is also the Roman goddess of love and beauty after which the planet was named.
Fescue... Indication
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