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• O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 120...
• And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help - for It As impotently rolls as you or I.
  -- Omar Khayyam/Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiya...
• BLACKGUARD, n. A man whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries in a market -- the fine ones on top -- have been opened on the wrong side.
  An inverted gentleman. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.
  -- Clifton Fadiman, "Any Number Can Play...
• Said Einstein, "I have an equation Which to some may seem rabelaisia
  Let _V be virginity Approaching infinity; Let _P be a constant persuasio...
• Said Einstein, "I have an equation Which to some may seem rabelaisia
  Let V be virginity Approaching infinity...
• oot n. [Unix] 1. The superuser account (with user name `root') that ignores permission bits, user number 0 on a Unix system.
  The term avatar is also used. 2. The top node of the system directory structure...
• oglodyte mode n. [Rice University] Programming with the lights turned off
  unglasses on, and the terminal inverted (black on white) because you've been up for so many days straight that your eyes hurt (see raster burn)....
• oglodyte mode: [Rice University] n. Programming with the lights turned off
  unglasses on, and the terminal inverted (black on white) because you've been up for so many days straight that your eyes hurt (see {raster burn})....