Juan

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Juan is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 23, 2021 and July 05, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Contact: Juan, juan[dot]acxmeetup[at]gmail[dot]com”; “The statue came, accepting Juan’s grace”; “He woke up in a cave … Juan crawled ashore, the sole survivor”. It most often appears alongside Munich, Vienna, 1002 N St. NW, Washington DC, 20001.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: August 23, 2021
  • Last seen: July 05, 2024

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

August 23, 2021 · Original source
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (RSVP) Contact: Juan, juan[dot]acxmeetup[at]gmail[dot]com Time: 4:00 PM, Saturday, September 4 Location: The location will be Parque Centenario, which is located in the geographic center of the City of Buenos Aires. I will be seating at one of the benches by the central lake of the park, carrying a sign with ACX MEETUP on it. Coordinates: https://w3w.co/activo.rápida.amistad
July 05, 2024 · Original source
But Byron? After all, it’s been a century Since George gave up his life to join the Greeks In breaking from their Turkish penitentiary Before the Brits could lap up their antiques. However great his corpus, what adventure re- Sung here can match its author’s final weeks? Yet still, I told myself that I’d review one, And so I guess we’ll settle for Don Juan.
Don Juan (rhymes with ‘through one,’ à la gringo) Dates back to — I don’t know — some days of yore. The legends say this playboy struck a bingo With women wed and single, rich and poor: He’d charm, disguise, connive — forgive the lingo — To please (ahem) his little matador, And shush his conscience, nagging at his vice, By crying, “Tan largo me lo fiàis!”
Don Juan’s childhood was a true anomaly; His father was a serial philanderer, So Juan’s learning was awash with homily: His brilliant mother (I don’t want to slander her) Defied her intellect and raised a qualm all ye Free-thinkers understand — or so I’ll gander: her Son learned the classics, but with strict omission Of sex, to keep him from his pop’s tradition;