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Under the Rose: Origin of Confidentiality Symbol
How a child god's silence inspired the Romans to place roses in dining rooms as symbols of secrecy, a practice that echoes through 'sub rosa' today.
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Horus, Harmakhis, and Harpokrates in Chapter III of V. and "Under the Rose" | Pynchon Notes
In both Chapter III of V. and "Under the Rose," Hugh Bongo-Shaftsbury appears at the Fink restaurant wearing a hollowed-out ceramic hawk's head. "'Harmakhis'"...
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