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  • liber lividus: (Latin) blue book → Ulysses, which was first published with a blue dustjacket (the colour of the Greek flag) and was regarded as a "blue book" (i.e. an obscene or pornographic book) → FW 013.21 bluest book on the previous page
  • lividus: (Latin) (1) of a blue or leaden color, bluish; (2) making livid, deadly; (3) produced by a beating, a bruising; black and blue
  • Leviticus: third book of the Old Testament, primarily concerned with Jewish religious law and priestly rituals
  • The Book of the Law: the text central to the philosophical and religious practice called Thelema founded by Aleister Crowley
  • Livy: Paduan-born Roman historian