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SPIDERS
SPIRIT --- SPRING
SPY

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SPIDERS


'I'm sure you must be weary, dear, with soaring
up so high; Will you rest upon my little bed?'
said the Spider to the Fly.
--Mary Howitt (1799—1888)
English poet.
"The Spider and the Fly" [1821]




SPIRIT

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see "THE MIND" for related links


A cheerful heart is good medicine, but
a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
--Bible
"Proverbs" 17:22

I remember my youth and the feeling that will
never come back any more — the feeling that
I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth,
and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us
on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort —
to death; the triumphant conviction of strength,
the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow
in the heart that with every year grows dim,
grow cold, grows small and expires — and
expires, too soon, too soon — before life
itself.
--Joseph Conrad [Teodor Jσzef Konrad Nalecz-Korzeniowski] (1857—1924)
Polish-born English novelist.

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are
tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.


Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger
than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Letters and Social Aims_ [1876]
"Progress and Culture," [18 July 1876]

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We can never finally know. I simply believe that
some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject
to the laws of space and time.
--Carl Gustav Jung (1875—1961)
Swiss psychologist.
In "Guardian" [19 July 1975].

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The
second is to look things in the face and know them
for what they are.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121—180)
Roman emperor [161—180] and Stoic philosopher.

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else —
the impotence of force to organize anything. There are
only two powers in the world — the spirit and the sword;
and in the long run the sword will always be conquered
by the spirit.
--Napoleon I (1769—1821)
Emperor of France [1804—1815].

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Back in the late 60s when Margaret and I had
been in Austin for just a week my boss took us
out to dinner at a restaurant called "The Barn."

Coming from NY, we didn't realize the popularity
of college football in Texas and halfway through
our meal word came that Texas has scored a
touchdown against Oklahoma. I think _everyone_
in the restaurant immediately got to their feet and
with forefingers and pinkies extended to the ceiling
started singing "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You."
It was a joyous moment; one we'll never forget.

kap, in a alt.fifty-plus.friends

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We don't have to turn to our history books for heroes.
They're all around us. Don't let anyone tell you that
America's best days are behind her or that the American
spirit has been vanquished. We've seen it triumph too
often in our lives to stop believing in it now.
--Ronald Reagan (1911—2004)
American President [1981—1989] and former Hollywood actor.

Those that lose wealth, lose much; those
that lose friends, lose more; but those that
lose spirit, lose all.
--Spanish proverb

And perhaps, after all, it is better that the lad should
break his neck than that you should break his spirit.
--Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894)
Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist.
"The Amateur Emigrant"

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brio [BREE-oh], noun:
Enthusiastic vigor; vivacity; liveliness; spirit.

grit (noun) [grit]
1. Small coarse granules, as of sand;
2. In the plural (grits), sand-like granules of ground corn;
3. Pluck, stamina, indomitable spirit.

kobold [KOH-bold], noun:
In German folklore, a haunting spirit, gnome, or goblin.

moxie (noun) ['mahk-see or -si]
New England chutzpah, gumption, pluck, spirit, courage.
(Moxie was originally a medicine and in 1884 became
a soft drink. It was the biggest selling soft drink in
the U.S. until the mid-1930s when it was eclipsed
by Coca-Cola.)

vapid [VAP-id; VAY-pid], adjective:
1. Lacking liveliness and spirit; unanimated; spiritless; dull; as, "a vapid speech."
2. Flavorless; lacking taste or zest; flat; as, "vapid beer."



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see "TIME" for related links


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"The Year's At The Spring"

The year's at the spring,
And the day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hillside's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn:
God's in his heaven —
All's right with the world!

--Robert Browning (1812—1889)
English poet.
"Song" from _Pippa Passes_ [1841], pt. 1


Oh, to be in England
Now that April’s there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England-now!
--Robert Browning (1812—1889)
English poet.
"Home-Thoughts, from Abroad" [1845]

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It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange
fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth. If we
never cared for little children before, we delight to see them roll
in the grass over which we hobble on crutches. The grandsire
turns wearily from his middle-aged, careworn son, to listen with
infant laugh to the prattle of an infant grandchild. It is the old who
plant young trees; it is the old who are most saddened by the
autumn; and feel most delight in the returning spring.
--Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803—1873)
British novelist and politician.

So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are
come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter.
The violets and the May flowers are as its inscriptions
or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on
us, when we open again at these pages of the book of
life.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.

March is the cruelest month, really. The temperature rises, the
snow melts, the world leans into spring — and then 5 inches of
snow falls and knocks your psyche back to December. The entire
month is one long parole hearing.
--James Lileks (1958— )
American journalist, columnist, and blogger.

The moral order of the world runs aground on hay fever.
Of what use is it? Why was it invented? Cancer and
hydrophobia, at least, may be defended on the ground
that they kill. Killing may have some benign purpose,
some esoteric significance, some cosmic use. But hay
fever never kills; it merely tortures. No man ever
died of it. Is the torture, then, an end in itself?
Does it break the pride of strutting, snorting man,
and turn his heart to the things of the spirit?
Nonsense! A man with hay fever is a natural criminal.
He curses the gods, and defies them to kill him. He
even curses the devil. Is its use, then, to prepare
him for happiness to come — for the vast ease and
comfort of convalescence? Nonsense again! The one
thing he is sure of, the one thing he never forgets
for a moment, is that it will come back again next
year.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
"A Theological Mystery",
_Damn! A Book of Calumny_ [1918]

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring,
that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
--attributed to Bill [Edgar Wilson] Nye (1850—1896)
American humorist.

Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds
yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked
up with plants.
--Dorothy Parker (1893—1967)
American critic and humorist.

The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun
And by and by a cloud takes all away!
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Two Gentlemen of Verona_, Act I, scene III

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
--Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)
English poet.
_Ode to the West Wind_

In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove;
In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—1892)
English poet.
_Locksley Hall_ [1842]

Sweet April showers
Do spring May flowers.
--Thomas Tusser (c.1524—1580)
English agricultural writer and poet.
_A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry_
[1557] "April's Husbandry"

The people of New England are by nature patient
and forebearing but there are some things which
they will not stand. Every year they kill a lot of
poets for writing about 'Beautiful Spring.' These
are generally casual visitors who bring their
notions of spring from somewhere else.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
In a speech to the New England Society [December 1876].

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first
spring day is another. The difference between
them is sometimes as great as a month.
--Henry Van Dyke (1852—1933)
American clergyman, educator, and author.
_Fisherman's Luck_ [1899], ch. 5

The first day of spring was once the time for taking
the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance
to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow.
Now we just set the clock an hour ahead and change
the oil in the crankcase.
--E.B. [Elwyn Brooks] White (1899—1985)
American essayist and literary stylist.
_One Man's Meat_ [1944]

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'Tis dog's delight to bark and bite
And little birds to sing,
And if you sit on a red-hot brick
It's a sign of an early spring.
--anon.

Hooray! Hooray!
The first of May;
Outdoor screwing
Begins today!
--American Folk Rhyme

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equinox (noun) ['e-kwκ-nahks]
1. One of the two days in the year when day
and night are of equal length-12 hours each;
2. The two points at which the sun's path,
as seen from earth, crosses the equator.

verdant [VUR-dnt], adjective:
1. Covered with growing plants or grass; green with vegetation.
2. Green.
3. Unripe in knowledge, judgment, or experience;
unsophisticated; green.
Ex.: Drab in winter, then suddenly sodden with alpine
runoff, the region turns dazzlingly verdant in spring.
--Patricia Albers,
"Shadows, Fire, Snow"



SPY

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see: "CIA"
see: "OSS"
see: "SECRETS"
see "WORK" for other related links

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Phil Esposito was one of the North American ice-hockey
players who went to Moscow to play the Soviet team
in the early 1970s. Assigned a hotel room, they suspected
that it might be bugged. Esposito recalls, 'We searched
the room for microphones. In the center of the room, we
found a funny-looking, round piece of metal imbedded
in the floor, under the rug. We figured we had found the
bug. We dug it out of the floor. And we heard a crash
beneath us. We had released the anchor to the chandelier
in the ceiling below.
_The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes_
Introduced by Edward Leeson [2005], "Sport and Show Business"

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...At that point Mandoline's lover, the Count de la
Dιfense d'Afficher, rushed into the room. I had to
swallow the blueprints quick, and I must say they
were the worst I've ever tasted.

'Cochon,' cried the Count. 'What are you doing in
my fiancιe's apartment?'

'Well, right now I am trying to find a bicarbonate
of soda.'

He advanced and slapped me across the cheek with
his gloves. I could not let this challenge go unheeded.
I produced my card-case. 'Take one, Monsieur,' I
snapped.

He did.

'What is it?' I said.

'Queen of spades.'

'Pay me — I drew the ace.'

This did not satisfy him, however, so I stalked away
to my motorcycle and drove off in low dungeon — I
couldn't make high on the gasoline we were getting
in those days.

--Groucho [Julius Henry] Marx (1895—1977)
American film comedian.
"How to be a spy"

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cipher (noun)
1: The sign O; naught or zero.
Synonyms: naught , zero, nothing,
Similar: nil
2: A method of writing using letters and symbols
with secret meaning, to conceal a message; code.
Synonyms: code, cryptography
Similar: cryptogram, acrostic, anagram

espial (noun)
1: The act of spying or observing.
2: The state of being espied or observed.
Related: observance

surreptitious (adj.) [sκ-rep-'ti-shκs]
Acting stealthily, sly and secretive; under cover, out of view.


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