correct.
Miroslav Holub.
The British army sustained sixty thousand casualties on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
The Middle Parts of Fortune.
There is no mention of Achilles’ heel in Homer. In fact there is no mention of it by anyone until Statius, in Latin, nine hundred years later.
Protagonist’s threadbare jeans and faded workshirts. Some few more presentable remnants hanging, virtually never any longer worn.
Spent Adidas.
Alan Turing committed suicide.
Swyne and Dour.
Azucena.
What Horace defined as a kind of uncontrolled energy in Pindar.
Possibly explaining why he sometimes makes no sense whatsoever.
Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften.
Can Protagonist even any longer afford to buy books?
Cézanne needed as many as five hundred sittings for a portrait. After a hundred and fifteen by Ambroise Vollard, he was willing to concede that the front of VoUard’s shirt was possibly acceptable.
He doesn’t come in here disguised like Westminster Abbey.
Gordon Bunshaft.
Gustave Courbet died at fifty-eight. Late along, he was drinking a full dozen bottles of wine a day.
Odi et amo.
Tell the people it is no use to depend on me any more now. Said Crazy Horse, bayoneted in the back at Fort Robinson.
Plaza El Toreo, Mexico, D.F., October 30, 1960. Carlos Arruza (rejoneador), Juan Silveti, Joselito Huerta, Manuel Capetillo, others, siete orejas y dos rabos. A benefit for Curro Ortega, who some weeks earlier had lost a leg when gored.
Protagonist will have watched that, also.
Louis Althusser spent four years in a psychiatric hospital after strangling his wife.
Marxist. Structuralist. Manic-depressive.
This sentence is a lie.
The question of Hans Walter Gabler’s command of colloquial English.
Honorificabilitudinitatibus.
In 1886, believing him dead, Verlaine published an edition of Rimbaud’s poems. Rimbaud was running guns and trading slaves in Abyssinia.
Ancient rumor insisted, seemingly wrongly, that Euripides was killed by dogs set at him by a rival playwright.
Hapax legomenon?
Considering marriage with the daughter of the King of Portugal, Philip the Good of Burgundy sent Jan van Eyck to paint her portrait. Surreptitiously.
The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think it is worth describing in detail.
John Howard Payne once proposed marriage to Mary Shelley.
Vigée-Lebrun.
Winthrop Mackworth Praed. Richard Monckton Milnes. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.
A las cinco de la tarde.
A las cinco en punto de la tarde.
Has anyone ever discovered precisely what good news was brought from Ghent to Aix?
Cousin Swift, you will never be a poet.
Said cousin Dryden.
John Kennedy Toole committed suicide by running a hose from his exhaust pipe into his car.
Saint Jerome was an anti-Semite.
Der Stürmer.
I’ll lug the guts into the neighbour room.
Albany, New York, Bret Harte was born in.
One of Franz Schubert’s last requests, while already feverish from the typhoid that would kill him six days later, was for a copy of the latest Fenimore Cooper.
Where will Protagonist have been born?
Francis Phelan.
Tolstoy ranked Guy de Maupassant second only to Hugo as the great European writer of his day.
The eruption of Santorin, ca. 1475 B.C., with its inconceivable tidal waves, is almost surely what ended Minoan civilization in Crete. Was it also the pillar of fire and the parting of the waters during the Exodus from Egypt?
Pharaoh’s pursuing host inundated on lower ground?
Egon Schiele died in an influenza epidemic.
Mel Ott died in a car crash.
Whisky per tutti!
Like Socrates, Aristotle was charged with impiety late in life. But went into exile rather than stand trial.
Refusing to allow Athens to sin twice against philosophy, being how he put it.
Ye gods, what sound is this?
Can Chloe, heavenly Chloe, piss?
Nobody ever laid it down without wishing it were longer. Said Johnson of Robinson Crusoe.
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