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In navigiorum summitatibus visuntur; and are called dioscuri, as Eusebius l. contra
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The boats could refer to the Greek gods, dioscuri, who protected sailors and whom Proust mentions in the letter, or the boats may also reflect Proust's anxiety and emotional turbulence.
Elana Estrin: What Joan Rivers and Marcel Proust Doodled on Their Mail Elana Estrin 2011
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The boats could refer to the Greek gods, dioscuri, who protected sailors and whom Proust mentions in the letter, or the boats may also reflect Proust's anxiety and emotional turbulence.
Elana Estrin: What Joan Rivers and Marcel Proust Doodled on Their Mail Elana Estrin 2011
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The boats could refer to the Greek gods, dioscuri, who protected sailors and whom Proust mentions in the letter, or the boats may also reflect Proust's anxiety and emotional turbulence.
Elana Estrin: What Joan Rivers and Marcel Proust Doodled on Their Mail Elana Estrin 2011
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The boats could refer to the Greek gods, dioscuri, who protected sailors and whom Proust mentions in the letter, or the boats may also reflect Proust's anxiety and emotional turbulence.
Elana Estrin: What Joan Rivers and Marcel Proust Doodled on Their Mail Elana Estrin 2011
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The boats could refer to the Greek gods, dioscuri, who protected sailors and whom Proust mentions in the letter, or the boats may also reflect Proust's anxiety and emotional turbulence.
Elana Estrin: What Joan Rivers and Marcel Proust Doodled on Their Mail Elana Estrin 2011
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The boats could refer to the Greek gods, dioscuri, who protected sailors and whom Proust mentions in the letter, or the boats may also reflect Proust's anxiety and emotional turbulence.
Elana Estrin: What Joan Rivers and Marcel Proust Doodled on Their Mail Elana Estrin 2011
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The boats could refer to the Greek gods, dioscuri, who protected sailors and whom Proust mentions in the letter, or the boats may also reflect Proust's anxiety and emotional turbulence.
Elana Estrin: What Joan Rivers and Marcel Proust Doodled on Their Mail Elana Estrin 2011
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None knew them; but so boldly they comported themselves, heading the charges, marshalling the ranks, here throwing up barricades, there plucking down doors and gates, breaking open the prisons and setting fire to private houses, that presently the whisper spread they were Castor and Pollux; till, at length, falling into the hands of the aediles, these _dioscuri_ were found to be two poor lunatics escaped from a house of detention.
Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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