a rare instance of authorial square brackets:
FDV: "[Silent]
566 A.D. At that time it came to pass ?that many fair maidens grieved to their minions were ravished of them by an ?ogre Europeus Pius and." →
"[Silent]
566 O.D. At that time it came to pass ?that 2 bronzelocked maidens grieved because their minion was ravished of them by an ?ogre Europeus Pius. Bloody wars in [Dublin]{Ballyaughacleeaghbally}."
"O.D." Latin for 'right eye' (not yet overdose)
[Silent]
stage direction?
this seems to be some kind of symmetry point between two very asymmetrical timelines: 1132,566,0,566,1132; E,△,0,⊣⊢, /[
single male, single female, zero, doubled female, doubled male?
Penguin: not indented
FW1: parentheses not square brackets, no italics
566 A.D. At this time it fell out that a brazenlockt damsel grieved
566 x 2 = 1132
siglum: ⊥
"fell out"
FDV: "many" → "2" → "a"
brazen = bold
brazen-locked: having brass-coloured hair
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| brass padlock |
German gelockt: lured; (of hair) curled (past tense of locken)
(Sobralasolas!) because that Puppette her minion
sob
sober
Spanish sobre las olas: over the waves
(why capitalised?)
sigla: ⊣⊢
puppet (imaginary friend?)
German Puppe: doll
Ppt ('Poor pretty thing', Swift's name for Stella in his Journal to Stella) [fweet-33]
French mignon: small and delicately pretty (pronounced 'minion')
Greek slang: mouni: female genitalia
was ravisht of her by the ogre Puropeus Pious.
ravished
"of her" (maybe: her virginity was taken?)
'pia e pura bella': Vico's phrase for the religious wars of his heroic age ('pious and pure wars')
Europe
prepuce?
Greek peos: penis
Bloody wars in Ballyaughacleeaghbally.
bloody (lost virginity)
AngloIrish phrase: bloody wars! (eg LeFanu)
Irish Baile Atha Cliath: Town of the Ford of the Hurdles (name of Dublin; pronounced 'blaaklee')
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