Word: quantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eclogues of Theocritus and Virgil, shepherds met in bucolic settings and conversed in polished verses. In Auden's eclogue, three men and a woman fall into a wartime conversation-in nine-syllable lines-in a Manhattan bar. They are: Quant, a sardonic shipping clerk; Malin, a medical intelligence officer in the Canadian Air Force; Rosetta, a department store buyer; Emble, a good-looking young naval officer. It is All Souls' Night...
When the bar closes, Rosetta invites the three men to her apartment for sandwiches and a nightcap. She and Emble are attracted to each other, and all four, in their alcoholic glow, feel the exciting promise of this union. But when Rosetta returns after seeing Quant and Malin to the door, she finds Emble passed out cold on her bed. The promise of love was an illusion. The poem ends, as it began, in the loneliness and frustration of all four characters, for Auden is preaching a revulsion from all temporal goods, including human love; the only thing to hold...
...from frogs to still-warm rats. Working on something which catches colds and looks somewhat like ourselves inside makes us feel much nearer to medicine and our goal. The latest contest, however didn't make that goal seem very close. Some of those solutions you've spilled in the quant lab are quite potent, aren't they, Waller? Or don't you like legs on your trousers in the springtime