"Thus I am seldom reticent"

Three follow-ups:

1. Reading Confessio Amantis, I am once again reminded that concision and brevity were not medieval virtues. Quoth the back cover of this translation: "Terence Tiller has been forced by the excessive length of the original to make substantial cuts." IOW, even Penguin Classics thinks John Gower was, indeed, a wanker.

2. Coming on the heels of Pluto's new additional name, the artist formerly known as 2003 UB313 is now officially Eris. Hail Eris!
   
   Note that this was the discoverer's suggested official name — he'd only code-named it Xena. Also, the moon code-named Gabrielle is officially Dysnomia — "lawlessness." Or, possibly, Lawless-ness

3. To clarify, yesterday's quote was not made by a marsupial, but a project manager.

---L.