Monthly Archives: February 2008

Oh. I see what you did there.

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Oh. Oh my. Misplaced confidence in reason was the well-spring of idiocy [...] Harumph and huzzah for The Consolations of Philosophy.

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Scribal errors.

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

periblepsis: “an eye-skip”. When one is reading from a text, and one’s eyes skip ahead or back a line. This is especially common when occasioned by homoeoteleuton. Homoeoteleuton: When two or more lines share a common ending in words and or syllables.

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