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Word: "Great junketings were going on that day
In Athens, while the joyous month of May
So lifted up the spirits, thus enhancing
The general gaiety, that people passed
All of the Monday jousting, or in dancing,
Or else spent it in Venus’ high service."

1. The action of the verb junket; feasting, banqueting, merrymaking; a going on a pleasure excursion, picnicking.

Wiki: "The image of Venus was marvellous. She
Was naked, floating on a boundless sea,
And all was hidden, from the navel down,
With green waves bright as glass; and a cithern
Was held in her right hand, while fluttering
Above a lovely garland of fresh scented
Roses that she was wearing, her doves circled."

"What is a Cittern?" on YouTube

But it is not Sviatagor or any other giant, nor Gulliver with a horse that comes out.

Wiki: "...Her greatest oath was just, ‘By St Eloi!’
And she was known as Madame Eglantine."

Wiki: "...And most especially, from all the shires
Of England, to Canterbury they come,
The holy blessed martyr there to seek,
Who gave his help to them when they were sick."

"Gaps, so many gaps in her reading, she'll never catch up."

Wiki: "Even at schools in Tokyo, they were about as common as PHS phones."

Wiki: "I was having trouble telling exactly how serious he was, but what with all the fuss over the Aum Shinrikyo group..."

Aum Shinrikyo > VX (nerve agent) > Assassination of Kim Jong-nam

Wiki: "Pretty sure the  Mount Asama Lodge  incident was, too…"

Wiki: "The city of Orange sat behind a big Roman arch that seemed to guard the road it straddled, the road leading up to the gates."

10. Down There in the South, 3 stars. Pompous rich man flees to the jungle after murdering someone more important, becomes Buddha-like figure.
11. The Old Incense Road, 3 stars. Caravan traveling through the desert has some suspicious characters with well kept secrets.

07. And the Streets Deserted, 3 stars. Emperor commissions a beautiful city in the name of a young girl he abducted and raped to death.
08. The Pool, 3 stars. Metaphysical healer is summoned to cure the emperor, but his recommendations are ignored.
09. Basic Weapons, 3 stars. Envious seller of curiosities uses the power of dance to kill off a rich man.

Wiki: "...whether it concerned mathematics, botany, metallurgy, silk painting, prosody, or the propensities and behavior of everybody living in the palace..."

04. The Siege, Battle, and Victory of Selimmagud, 3 stars. Thief is in the wrong place at the wrong time, various military men have squirmy plans for his body.
05. Concerning the Unchecked Growth of Cities, 3 stars. The life/death/rebirth of a capital city through the ages.
06. Portrait of the Empress, 4 stars. Storyteller has the inside scoop on the no-nonsense Empress that ruled peacefully with her street smarts.

01. Portrait of the Emperor, 4 stars. Civilization deteriorates through pointless wars, eventually resurfaces thanks to a curious boy poking through ruins.
02. The Two Hands, 3 stars. Inbred dynasty is killed off by a big fellow that rules like a hermit.
03. The End of a Dynasty, or The Natural History of Ferrets, 4 stars. Sad little boy makes dangerous new friends, learns his royal regulated life is a lie.

17. Mae West's Reduction Mammoplasty, 1 star. Textbook documentation of a procedure with a famous name tacked on, part 2.
18. Queen Elizabeth's Rhinoplasty, 1 star. Textbook documentation of a procedure with a famous name tacked on, part 3.
19. The Secret History of World War 3, 2 stars. Oversharing the president's medical information to distract from the mounting hostilities worldwide.

13. The Generations of America, 1 star. Everyone shot everyone else.
14. Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan, 1 star. Uniformly obsessed with his hinder.
15. The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered As a Downhill Motor Race, 1 star. He's trying too hard to be edgy.
16. Princess Margaret's Facelift, 1 star. Textbook documentation of a procedure with a famous name tacked on.

09. You and Me and the Continuum, 1 star. Quasars, fetal genitalia, more art.
10. Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy, 1 star. Fantasizing about the deaths of various famous women, sexy cars.
11. Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A., 1 star. Housewives can't get enough Vietnam torture porn.
12. Crash!, 1 star. Statistical information about hypothetical car crash preferences in the general public.

Wiki: "...a racing car is more beautiful than the Winged Victory of Samothrace ..."

Wiki: "...and it was clear that these blind people, however caring a father, mother or child they might be, could not take care of each other, otherwise they would meet the same fate as the blind people in the painting, walking together, falling together and dying together."

Wiki: "(4) radio-spectra from the quasar CTA 102 ..."

05. Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown, 1 star. JFK, the Apollo 1 fire, more repetition.
06. The Great American Nude, 1 star. Muse maybe gets murdered in a movie maze, no1curr.
07. The Summer Cannibals, 1 star. Screwing a whole bunch while on a sunny vacation.
08. Tolerances of the Human Face, 1 star. Rape is a multi-level car park, pedophiles will be passé in the future. Cool cool cool cool.

Wiki: "(1) The catalogue of an exhibition of tropical diseases at the Wellcome Museum ..."

Wiki: "...(4) Voice-print (terminal transmission) of Col. Komarov on the record jacket of a commercial 45..."

Word: "How would she have preferred it: in terms of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, the '50s school of highway engineering or, most soigné of all, the Embarcadero Freeway?"

1. Dressed, adorned, tended, or prepared with great care and attention to detail; well-groomed.

Wiki: "For all I know, the nations of Europe may have emulated the Kilkenny cats and devoured one another, or perhaps they are still fighting."

Wiki: "Said to have been carved by Benvenuto Cellini for his patron, the Duke of Florence."

Word: "... I’ve picked up one thing here and another there, and when I happen on some trifle with a bit of a history it just puts the comether on me, and have it I must, whether or no."

1. In to put one's (the) comether on : to exercise persuasion or coaxing on, to persuade over, coax, wheedle; to get under one's influence.

01. The Atrocity Exhibition, 2 stars. Troubled man stages an elaborate art installation to blow up his boring life.
02. The University of Death, 1 star. More of the same, JFK assassination recreation with deliberate car crash.
03. The Assassination Weapon, 1 star. Re-engineering Kennedy's death to be more sensible(???).
04. You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe, 2 stars. Geometry of a nude woman in a sandy apartment complex.

Wiki: "Her breasts and buttocks illustrated Enneper's surface of negative constant curve, the differential coefficient of the pseudo-sphere."