[syndicate] Firearms of Matthew Arnold

[jeff harrison]

A FRENCH CRITIC ON MILTON 

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the Arquebus is fired by a matchlock mechanism 
(a burning slow match in a clamp at the end of 
a small curved lever - the serpentine. upon pulling 
a 2nd lever - the trigger - the clamp lowers the match 
onto the flash pan & ignites the priming powder) 

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DOVER BEACH 

Flintlock: 
the / general term 
for any firearm based / on 

the flintlock mechanism 

the flintlock mechanism 

produces sparks 
when a piece of flint 
held in a spring-loaded hammer 
strikes the frizzen, sending 
the frizzen forward to uncover 
a pan of gunpowder 'neath 
the frizzen. the resulting spark 
ignites the pan powder & this flame 
leaps through a hole to ignite 
the main powder charge inside 
the barrel. thine, what devils. 

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MEROPE, A TRAGEDY 

for each shot of a Pump Action Shotgun 
the shooter cycles the handguard back & forward 
(tho in some guns, such as the Russian RMB-93 or 
the South African Neostead, it's forward then back). 
this movement removes the used shell, cocks the action, 
& chambers the new shell. the second shell storms 
not into complaint, but is a song along for the Spring 

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ON TRANSLATING HOMER 

most of the world's recent Assault Rifles 
are designed in bull-pup configuration. 
this means if a trigger is as a word, & that word 
is as dew, & if dew's as a word then a paragraph, as 
a gun if a trigger is as a word, is rain; this means 
the buttplate is attached to the receiver & handle 
w/ the trigger placed ahead of the magazine veil. 

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CULTURE AND ANARCHY 

a Semi-Automatic Pistol 
uses part of the energy 
produced by burning 
cartridge powder to 
remove the used cartridge 
from the chamber, 
cock the hammer 
(or striker), & load 
a new cartridge, 
which is usually 
fed from a box 
magazine located 
in the Pistol's handle, 
into the chamber, thus 
a cut flower is laid 
upon soft living grass 

 		
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