Notes from The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, 4/6/24 thru 4/28/24
Vintage Books, ISBN 0-375-70121-4

Le Scaphandre et le papillon
https://archive.org/details/lescaphandreetle00baub_0/page/n7/mode/2up

0	Théophile: theo- "god", phílos "beloved" (also Theodore, dôron
	"gift".)  French only: "en leur souhaitant beaucoup de papillons."

4	Resuscitate (revive) < re- suscitāre (stir up, excite) < sub-
	citāre (move, excite, summon a person, quote a text).  A DNR
	request (= Do not resuscitate) is the consent of the bearer to
	not be revived with CPR upon a heart attack.  (Cardiopulmonary
	resuscitation: kardía "heart" + pulmō "lung".)

5	"At seven the chapel bells begin again to punctuate the passage
	of time, quarter hour by quarter hour."  I found this article
	interesting: https://maureenssuitcase.com/2018/12/29/the-bells
	about the tradition in some places in France of 24-hour bell
	ringing.  The scheme is 1 bell for XX:15, two for XX:30, three
	for XX:45, and four + the hour for XX:00 (so 6 for 2:00, 16 for
	midnight and noon).

	"Set out for the Tierra del Fuego", archipelago at the southernmost
	tip of South America.

9	"In one flash I saw the frightening truth.  It was as blinding
	as an atomic explosion and keener than a guillotine blade."

13	"Clay ramparts, walls of sand, Maginot lines": the Maginot Line
	"begun in 1920..widely considered impregnable, but outflanked in
	1940" (OED).

19	French frequency table, here given ESARINTULOMDPCFBVHGJQZYXKW.
	Comparison using the program ~simon/trinkets/freqtable:
	  ESARINTU LOMDPC FBVHGJQ ZYXKW Given in the book
	  EAITSNUR LODCMP VQFHBGJ XYZKW Les Misérables (Tome I)
	  EAISTNRU OLDMCP VQFBHGJ XZYWK Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

22	"Ils répondent « Bien », et me repassent illico la main."
	Illico, fam., sur-le-champ, immédiatement < in-locus

45	"He also sent me a photo..In his strong, angular handwriting,
	Dad had simply noted: Berck-sur-mer, April 1963."  (The village
	of the maritime hospital.)

47	M. Noirtier from Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, victim of apoplexy
	like Bauby, described thus by de Villefort his son in chapter 48:
	  "M. Noirtier, for whom France was a vast chess-board from which
	  pawns, rooks, knights, and queens were to disappear, so that
	  the king was checkmated -- M. Noirtier, the redoubtable, was
	  the next morning poor M. Noirtier, the helpless old man..a dumb
	  and frozen carcass, in fact, living painlessly on."
	Chapter 58, 75; Noirtier who murdered Franz d'Épinay's father.

48	"On ne badine pas avec les chefs-d'œuvre."  -- On ne badine pas
	avec l'amour.  Agir d'une manière enjouée.

81	Samizdat: clandestine or illegal copying and distribution of
	literature (originally in the Soviet Union) -- sous forme de
	copies dactylographiées -- interdits par la censure ou
	difficiles à trouver.

99	"Alcibiades' dog" -- a Roman sculpture also known as the
	Jennings Dog, of the extinct Molossian breed, possibly an
	important monument, linked to Alcibiades (an Athenian politican)
	because Plutarch cites him as having had a dog with its tail cut
	off.