I Could More Easily Forgive His Vanity Had He Not Wounded Mine.

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PLEUR

[noun]

crying; shedding tears, especially as an expression of distress or pain.

Etymology: from Old French plor, back formation from plorer, from Latin plōrō, “I cry out”.

[Adrian Borda]

Mind blown

This is not a parrot — take a closer look.

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To anyone who believes fairy tale romances never happen in real life, may I remind you that JRR and Edith Tolkien met and experienced a forbidden love in their youth, and then were separated for five whole years because of his guardian’s rules that he could not date till he was 21, and she got engaged to someone else only because she assumed he’d forgotten her and lost hope that she could ever be with him, but then on his 21st birthday, he wrote her a letter saying he still loved her and wanted to marry her, she responded basically saying ‘if I’d known you hadn’t left me on the shelf, I would never have said yes to anyone else,’ then a week later she greeted him at the train station and then immediately dumped her fiancé, and they got married and she converted to his religion and danced for him in a flowering field far away from the trenches into which he was drafted, which left such an impression that he crafted an entire story about the most beautiful maiden in the world who danced in the woods and made enormous sacrifices to be with the man she loved, and they had four kids and remained faithful to each other and blissfully grew old together and their gravestones are now marked with the names of that same fictional couple that he created, who broke every rule and overcame every possible obstacle to be together and get a happy ending, who only did all that because he based it all on their own real love story.

I prefer the tea.

A cartoon by Jack Ziegler. For more cartoons from this week’s issue of the magazine: http://nyr.kr/1ipFrV2

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PERVIGILIUM

[noun]

1. a watching all night; a vigil; a night vigil.

2. Pathology: disinclination to sleep; wakefulness.

3. a nocturnal festival in honour of a god, especially the Bona Dea.

Etymology: from Latin, “the vigil”, “a devotional watch”.

[25kartinok - Night Watch]

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Saguaros rank among the largest of any cactus or desert plant in the world, but  a saguaro’s growth is extremely slow. After 15 years, the saguaro may be         barely a foot tall. At about 30 years saguaros begin to flower and produce fruit. By 50 years-old the saguaro can be as tall as 2 m.  After about 75 years on average, it may sprout its first branches, or “arms”. By 100 years the saguaro may have reached 7.5 m. An adult saguaro is generally considered to be about 125 years of age.  Saguaros may live at least 150 years, however, biologists believe that some plants may live over 200 years.

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