TFv03 CH 12 dead-end cats (annotated)

Annotations for dead-end cats from Honeysuckle & Pain.

## Page 311

***Ne cadant in obscurum.***

Mozart - Requiem: Domine Jesu Christe

Lord Jesus Christ, King of glory,
liberate the souls of the faithful,
departed from the pains of hell
and from the bottomless pit.
Deliver them from the lion's mouth,
lest hell swallow them up,
**lest they fall into darkness.**
Let the standard-bearer, holy Michael,
bring them into holy light.
Which was promised to Abraham
and his descendants.

## Page 312

**خلي بالك من**

 beware of your ??? lend a hand, right? – **Be careful what you wish for, right?** OR Maybe the XXXX could lend
a hand, right?

## Page 314

**∴**

therefore

**∵**

because

Also a laser pointer from *Predator* (1987), a movie about an alient hunter*.* Given the strong themes of hunting and predation, especially in Anwar's sections, this is hardly coincidental. It also evokes the Trifocal symbol from the *Splinter Cell*videogames.

## Page 316

**sipaapuni**

the holiest of Hopi religious shrines where,
acording to Hopi mythology, the ancestors of Hopi as well as the rest of
humankind emerged from third world (underworld) into this upper fourth world

**talhayingwti**

dawn, near dawn (in Hopi language)

**Delta Time**

Delta Time or Delta Timing is a concept used
amongst programmers in relation to hardware and network responsiveness. In
graphics programming, the term is usually used for variably updating scenery
based on the elapsed time since the game last updated, (i.e. the previous
"frame") which will vary depending on the speed of the computer, and
how much work needs to be done in the game at any given time

## Page 321

**Yuzu**

yuzu tree (275)

Anwar killing the squirrel made Xanther see the living
creatures around her?

## Page 322

**Codeling**

cuddling + code

**Mantis means prophet**

it does, because of the praying

**ERROR**

because Narcons are having conversations

## Page 323

**Uexkull**

see V1 178 – Xanther knows it because
she knows the epigrams?

**Simpler**

VEM?

## Page 324

**Youssef Chahine**

Egyptian film director

***Alexandria... Why?***

Set against the panoramic backdrop of
war-torn Egypt, director Youssef Chahine tells a highly personal tale of love
and determination. Amid the poverty, death and suffering caused by World War
II, 18 year-old Yehia, retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing.
Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of one day studying filmmaking in America,
but after falling in love and discovering the lies of European occupation,
Yehia profoundly reevaluates his identity and allegiances.

Set in the Egypt during and after World War II, Youssef
Chahine's autobiographical drama of his youth in Cairo is a bright, bustling
mosaic of a country embroiled in conflict and struggling with its identity.
Centered on the story of high school student Yehia Mourad (Mohsen Mohiedine),
Chahine's cinematic alter ego, it's national history through a personal
perspective and the first film autobiography ever in Egyptian cinema. As the
strains of nationalism set Arabs against British soldiers, political factions
against one another, and races and cultures at odds, Yehia escapes through
theater and the movies, dreaming of Hollywood as he stages his own plays and
theatrical reviews until he's swept up in student activism. No stranger to
challenging conventions and taboos, Chahine features an interfaith romance
between a Jewish woman and a Muslim activist and a homosexual relationship
between Yehia's wealthy uncle and a young British soldier among his many
stories. In fact, he packs the film so full that the colors threaten to bleed
together, but Chahine masterfully keeps the film coherent and clear while
driving it forward at a racing pace. The action at times abruptly jumps from
one thread to another, as if matching Yehia's torn loyalties between art and
political action, but the tonal shifts only add another layer of richness to
the passion Chahine has lavished on this film. It won the Special Jury Prize at
Berlin in 1979 (Chahine's first major festival prize), and was followed by two
other autobiographical films, An Egyptian Story and Alexandria Again and
Forever, which became known as the Alexandria Trilogy

***The Sin of Harold Diddlebock***

comedy film written and
directed by Preston Sturges, starring the silent film comic icon Harold Lloyd

## Page 325

**quality control**

reason why Vol 3 came out 8 months
after Vol 2 instead of 6?

## Page 326

**MOCA**

Museum of Contemporary Art

**Musical Group on a balcony**

link

**Looking down on us**

like angels/narcons

## Page 327

**She’s going to die**

screamed by tian li and heard by Astair in dream

## Page 328

**Out-and-about**

taking a stroll outside

**Tar pits**

The La Brea Tar Pits are a group
of tar pits around which Hancock Park was formed in urban Los Angeles. Natural
asphalt (also called asphaltum, bitumen, pitch or tar—brea in Spanish) has
seeped up from the ground in this area for tens of thousands of years

## Page 331

**Koons**

“Tulips” by Jeff Koons, a favorite artist of
the philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad, is among the works included in their
museum's inaugural display

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**atlatl**

a stick used by Eskimos and early American Indians
to propel a spear or dart