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Esprit de Plum ("Spirit of the Pen") is a term coined by author Christopher Arbor and filmmaker Ethan Hunter to describe the phenomenon of misremembering and effectively--but unintentionally--rewriting previously told stories (derived from film, television, novels, comic books etc.) to make them far better than they actually are or were.

Origin:

Arbor and Hunter, who became friends in college, would tell one another about stories they had read or seen before, recapping the events and quoting lines of dialogue. But upon actually re-experiencing these stories would discover that they had reworked the story and even invented dialogue that never existed. Somewhere between, for example, seeing a movie and telling their friend about it they had revised the film to be much better. They encountered this phenomenon often enough that they decided it should have a name and so they created the term “Esprit de Plum.”

“I haven't the foggiest clue why we gave it a French name,” Hunter once said. “I guess we just thought it sounded appropriate or maybe just classier. Neither of us actually speaks French.”

Arbor related the origin of the term as follows, “The first time we noticed it was when Ethan recounted to me this one issue of Batman with clarity that can only be described as eidetic. The premise of the issue was that The Dark Knight was dealing with exposure to Scarecrow's fear gas. Ethan was able to make it sound as psychologically complex as a Dostoevsky novel. Months later when he dug the issue out of his mom's basement it seemed to have the literary quality of toilet paper."

West Runton War Memorial is situated in the Parish of Runton in the English County of Norfolk. The Memorial is constructed of Brick and Flint and is built into the southern perimeter wall of the Parish Church of the Holy Trinity. There are three tablets set into the front. Three steps lead up to the memorial and flower troughs sit at the foot of the World war 1 tablets. It stands right on the verge of the A149 and is quiet precarious for anyone taking a visit to the Memorial. The inscription above the Tablets reads ‘’They were a wall unto us both by night and day’’ (Bible: 1 Kings, (1 Samuel), Chapter 25, verse 16) and also ‘’ To the Men of Runton who fell’’. There are a total of 37 names on the tablets.

XArchive is an open source (GPL) archive creation and extraction utility for Linux using the GTK+ interface toolkit. What makes XArchive different from many other archiving tools is that XArchive is a control program for shell script 'wrappers' around the various command line tools that deal with the archive formats XArchive supports. Enabling a new format merely requires writing a new wrapper script and placing it in XArchive's wrapper directory. The developer states that once he had the first script written, writing the others took "less than an hour."

The program has a full graphical interface, with tabs in the main window for opening multiple archives simultaneously - a new instance is not required for each file. A toolbar in the main window allows access to all the main functions of the program, which combined with the single window nature, makes XArchive a good match for tiling window managers like dwm. There is a similarly-named program called Xarchiver which performs much the same function and was released around the same time but this, according to XArchive's author, is a coincidence.

Supported formats: rar, tar, zip, 7zip, arj, rpm, deb, and ace (only reading and extracting is supported for ace archives)