rolanni | Et cum spiritu tuo

An 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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I ordered and received my copy of the DRAGON SHIP cover art from David Mattingly. Love it! After Christmas it goes to the framer so it can hang on the wall next to my GHOST SHIP cover art.

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

Can you tell me -- and everyone else -- *how* you ordered the cover art from David? I was over to his site and didn't find a link ...

I emailed him directly. I had his email from when I ordered the cover art for GHOST SHIP and when I saw that you all had gotten your copy of the cover I asked him if/when it would be available for sale to us, the slavering general public. He said I could order right away, I did, and the signed cover art poster arrived Friday. Do you need his email addy or do you have it to post here?

Anne in Virginia

I guess I'll have to try that again myself!
When there are once gain funds availabl, that is *sigh*

Et cum spiritu tuo

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