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- n any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland
- A few weeks ago, I finally got around to seeing Persepolis, the animated adaption of Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel memoirs of growing up in Iran, which I'd read years ago.
- erse Seneca's famous maxim--Ars longa, vita brevis--and you come up with a pretty fair description of many big, fat, fact-crammed current biographies: life is long, art short.