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"My right hand holds a pen, my left a naked sword." [Dextra tenet calamum, strictum tenet altera ferrum.]
Ovid, Heroides, XI. Canace to Macareus [Vive, soror, soror o carissima… Vive nec unius corpore perde duos. Spes bona.]

La Roux — Bulletproof Gamper & Dadoni Remix
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"Part of my soul I seek thee, and thee claim My other half: with that thy gentle hand
Seized mine, I yielded, and from that time see How beauty is excelled by manly grace."
John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV, lines 487-490, 1667.

"The fugitive too, looking back, and discovering his danger by means of the same art, hid himself under a wooden
bridge which was near at hand ; clinging to it, and hanging in such a manner as neither to touch earth nor water."
William of Malmesbury, Chronicle of the kings of England, Book II, Chapter 10, 1127, p. 174 [Gerbert of Aurillac].

"Gerbert instructed Constantine that, if doubtful of the position of the pole star, he should fix the sighting tube
of the armillary sphere into position to view the star he suspected was it, and if the star did not move out of sight,
it was thus the pole star."
Richer of Saint-Remy, History of France, 997.

Josephine had moved away craving only proximity to empress Celene. Sera gave proof she was Azura's pole star.

"Diotima:— Poros [Resource, son of Metis (Craftiness)] had got drunk with nectar (wine, you see, did not yet exist),
and gone out into Zeus’ garden; now, weighed down with drink, he was sleeping. So Penia [Lack] plotted, because
of her own resourcelessness, to have a baby from Poros, and she lay down beside him and conceived Eros."
Plato, Symposium, 203b2–c1 [At the feast held by the gods, when Aphrodite was born.]

"The rational principles all together are Plenty, the plenitude and wealth of beauties,already manifested;
and this is the being drunk with nectar."
Plotinus, Enneads, Third Ennead, Book V, Chapter 9 [Love, therefore, is like a goad; it is without resource in itself].

Everyone Loves A Villain — Empty Mirrors
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"Note: God knows how Poros managed it while collapsed in a drunken sleep."
Andrea W. Nightingale, Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy, Cambridge, 1995, p. 128, #93.

"Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.
Then sigh not so, but let them go, And be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey, nonny nonny.
Sing no more ditties, sing no mo Of dumps so dull and heavy. The fraud of men was ever so, Since summer first was leavy.
Then sigh not so, but let them go And be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey, nonny nonny."
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, Scene 3, 1600 [Balthasar (singing)].

"Are there not moments," he [Benno] asked William, "when you would also do shameful things to get your hands on a book
you have been seeking for years?" —"The wise and most virtuous Sylvester II, centuries ago, gave as a gift a most precious
armillary sphere in exchange for a manuscript, I believe, of Statius or Lucan," William said. He added then, prudently,
"But it was an armillary sphere, not his virtue."
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose, Second Day, Sext, 1980 [Pope Sylvester II was Gerbert of Aurillac].

Justinia traded favors with Isabela for orb, cradle of Love. Briala dead, Fade also revamps incestuous Gaspard & Florianne.