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"Slowly there grew over us a blue hanging tester of smoke, illuminated by the flame of the new-lit lamp."
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale, Chapter 11 Nightgown, 1851.

Daft Punk — Tron Legacy: End Titles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DMlLkUixJY

"On the other hand, what stranger will you find loyal, if you are an enemy to your own family?"
[Aut quem alienum fidum invenies, si tuis hostis fueris?]
Sallust, The Jugurthine War, Chapter 10.

“The usurer takes another way, he contemns Nature in herself and in her follower, placing elsewhere his hope.”
"E perché l’usuriere altra via tene, per sé natura e per la sua seguace dispregia, poi ch’in altro pon la spene."
Dante, Inferno, Canto XI, l. 109-111 [Live & prosper; Dal principio, convene prender sua vita e avanzar la gente.]

Niccolò Tron, 68th Doge, tried a cult of personality by printing his portrait on Tron lira. Venice erased & forgot.

Ansel Elgort — Thief
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohSZNzXGGlM

Ruth Bekker's paranoia spread widely.

"Seed must be drilled not spilled."
Montaigne, Essays, Book III, Essay 6 On coaches (Des Coches) [The gift in such powerful hands always proves useless.]

Cora fails to decipher transponder. 

"I will do anything, Nerissa, ere I will be married to a sponge."
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene 2, line 80 [Portia].

Liam is a sponge. 

"Thus we too oft presume, Thinking to shun some present ill And plunge into it farther still."
Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, Book V, #6 The old trot and two servants [They from Charybdis fell on Scylla's rocks.]

Now is time to break up with Peebee & forsake those companions who do not sleep.