ATD Kit mysterious travel refs 1

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Tue Jan 9 08:53:24 UTC 2024


“’SOIR, DALLY.” It was Policarpe, an old acquaintance of Kit’s once, she
gathered, back in Belgium. “Just out licking a few vitrines.


- ‘soir, short for bon soir no doubt

- Policarpe - Greek “much fruit”
named after Polycarp? bishop of Smyrna, first Christian martyr outside the
New Testament, burned and stabbed “when the fire failed to consume his
body” AD 55


- vitrines
*window shopping*. faire du lèche-vitrine le samedi to go window shopping
on Saturdays.


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