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As we entered the courtyard, the captain begged to know by what possibility I understood in his own language what he could not. I explained that while the woman spoke so glibly I caught the words "doma, kamen, na leva, gastinni dvor." I understood only the essential part of her instruction, and was not confused by the rest.
When I called upon the watchmaker he told me of an American recently arrived from Kiachta. Two hours later while writing in my room I heard a rap at my door. On opening I found a man who asked in a bewildered air, "Amerikansky doma?" "Dah," I responded. "Parlez vous Francais?" was his next question. "Oui, Monsieur, Francais ou Anglais." "Then you are the man I want to find. How do you do?"
Immediately, Sid Chamberlain and Gloria Standish began giving their telecasts a Kukan dateline, and Hubert Penrose used the name in his official reports. They also found a Martian calendar; the year had been divided into ten more or less equal months, and one of them had been Doma. Another month was Nor, and that was a part of the name of the scientific journal Martha had found.
"I don't think there's any doubt about this being a magazine, at all." He looked again at the title, his lips moving silently. "Mastharnorvod Tadavas Sornhulva. Wonder what it means. But you're right about the date Doma seems to be the name of a month. Yes, you have a word, Dr. Dane."
In the hands of the majority of etchers a large plate is an abomination, diffused in interest, coarse of line; but Brangwyn is not to be considered among this majority. He is a big fellow in everything. Besides, Whistler was using the familiar argument, pro doma sua. Because Catullus and Sappho did not write epics that is no reason why Dante should not. It is the old story of the tailless fox.
But if doma here be not equivalent to megaron, what room can it possibly be? Who was killed in another place? what place therefore needed purification except the hall and courtyard? No other places needed purifying; there is therefore clearly a defect in the lines which cannot be used in the argument. Is this quite certain? He is in, is there another room whence she can hear him?
I felt, as I rang the bell of No. 3, that unpleasant pain in the pit of the stomach that tells you that you're going to make a fool of yourself. Well, it would not be for the first time. "Boris Nicolaievitch, doma?" I asked the cross-looking old woman who opened the door. "Doma," she answered, holding it open to let me pass. I was shown into a dark, untidy sitting-room.
Martha, you've been working on these Martian texts ever since we landed here for the last six months. Tell me, have you found a single word to which you can positively assign a meaning?" "Yes, I think I have one." She was trying hard not to sound too exultant. "Doma. It's the name of one of the months of the Martian calendar." "Where did you find that?" von Ohlmhorst asked.
But as Noack wants to prove the house of Odysseus, with its upper chambers, to be a late peculiar house, he, of course, expunges the two mentions of girls' upper chambers in the Odyssey. The process is simple and easy. Here we seem to distinguish the bed-chamber from the doma, which is the hall.
Noack objects that when Odysseus fumigates his house, after slaying the Wooers, he thus treats the megaron, AND the doma, AND the courtyard. Therefore, Noack argues, the megaron, or hall, is one thing; the doma is another. Mr. Monro writes, "doma usually means megaron," and he supposes a slip from another reading, thalamon for megaron, which is not satisfactory.
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