Et cum spiritu tuo
Monday, December 19th, 2011 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniAn early morning discussion of the addresses of Hamlet’s duplex (2B and Not 2B) brought to mind the pope’s phone number, which is the title of today’s post, and also a Catholic in-joke. Worse, it’s an in-joke for Catholics who still (faintly) recall the respondents to the Latin Mass, and! those who still remember when phone numbers were rendered thusly: Northfield Eight Six-Nine-Three-Six. You’d think my brain would have more interesting things to do than remember this stuff, but! The above is pronounced, indifferently, I expect: Etcum Spiri Two-Two-O. Note the lack of an international calling code.
When it’s not being a phone number, the phrase is part of the response pair: Dominus vobiscum/Et cum spiritu tuo, which means The lord be with you/And with your spirit.
So now you know.
OK! Exciting doin’s here at the Confusion Factory:
1. I am in the position of needing to write a whole lotta words in a short number of days. This means? I’m turning off the internet and the email. I hope you all have a delightful holiday season of your choice, and I’ll see you again early, but not too early, in the New, and please Goddess Much Better, Year.
2. “Kin Ties” and “Guaranteed Delivery” have aged off the of the Splinter Universe site. They are now available as echapbook Courier Run right now from Smashthing and from Amazon, and RSN from BN. I did clean up the typos and put in the missing words, but there are no other changes.
3. Be good to yourselves, and to each other. Remember to tell the people you love how much they mean to you.
See you in 2012.
Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.
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Courier Run
Date: 2011-12-19 03:03 pm (UTC)Running to (figuratively, that is) to Amazon right now!
Thank you.
:)
Dragon Ship cover
Date: 2011-12-19 03:41 pm (UTC)Also went immediately to Amazon and ordered the newest ebook, COURIER RUN. Am saving them as a treat for myself as a reward for finishing wrapping a few presents. Of course I read them when they were posted first but am intrigued to see that they are touted as being slighly different that the original postings. Fun, fun, fun.
Happy Holidays to us all.
Anne in Virginia
Re: Dragon Ship cover
Date: 2011-12-19 04:02 pm (UTC)Re: Dragon Ship cover
Date: 2011-12-19 05:37 pm (UTC)Anne in Virginia
Re: Dragon Ship cover
Date: 2011-12-20 03:18 am (UTC)When there are once gain funds availabl, that is *sigh*
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Date: 2011-12-19 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-20 03:19 am (UTC)Holidays
Date: 2011-12-19 04:24 pm (UTC)Christmas Vacation
Date: 2011-12-19 04:38 pm (UTC)Dan Morris
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Date: 2011-12-19 05:42 pm (UTC)I admire your tenacity. You're a role model for writers everywhere, especially me - I really should turn off my own internet and buckle down. Good luck with those words!
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Date: 2011-12-19 05:48 pm (UTC)COURIER RUN
Date: 2011-12-19 07:50 pm (UTC)Anne in Virginia
COURIER RUN really delivering!
Date: 2011-12-20 12:03 pm (UTC)Anne in Virginia
Courier Run
Date: 2011-12-21 06:59 am (UTC)Happy Holidays to you and your cats from me and my naughty Gang of Five (dogs)
C.
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Date: 2011-12-22 07:27 pm (UTC)School boy irreverence turned Et cum spiritu tuo into a chanted “We can beat the Jews at dominos.” Like many another item of schoolyard play, this was passed down the generations.
Randall Garrett made play with the exchange, in The Ipswich Phial.
“You intend to pray for answers to those questions, my lord?”
“That, yes. But I have found the best way to ask God about questions like these is to go out and dug up the data yourself.”
Father Art smiled. “Dominus Vobiscum.”
“Et cum spiritu tuo,” Lord Darcy replied.
“Excavamus!” said the priest.
Raymond