Dulce ET Decorum est pro patria mori.
Dulce ET Decorum est pro patria mori.
touche...
At 10:04 AM 9/13/00 -0400, you wrote:
Dulce ET Decorum est pro patria mori.
I know: I was trying to say "sweet decorum," though perhaps Justin will
want to reenact the scene from "Monty Python's Life of Brian," in which the
Roman guard lectures Brian on the poor Latin grammar of his anti-Roman
[corrected version]
Justin wrote: Dulce ET Decorum est pro patria mori.
I know: I was trying to say "sweet decorum," though perhaps Justin will
want to reenact the scene from "Monty Python's Life of Brian," in which the
Roman guard lectures Brian on the poor Latin grammar of his anti-Roman
makes clear that Jim really meant dulce
decorum not dulce et decorum; just as applied to
Keats's sonnet on Homer it makes clear that Keats
knew Balboa not Cortez discovered the Paciific,
and still meant Cortez not Balboa. That is, the
sonnet is structured around the analogy Chapman
is to Homer
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Of course,
it's quite possible that new kinds of internationalist opposition movements
are brewing...
CB: I probably have e-mail list saturation amnesia, but has the economy of Venezuela
2000 been discussed here much ?
I wrote:
You should read more carefully. I wasn't saying that you should be filtered,
Saith Brad:
You need to write more carefully. You were:
Néstor wrote:
(The internal structure of Argentina is not the business of interlopers
from the imperialist world -- and interloping from alleged
In a message dated 9/13/00 11:51:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I know: I was trying to say "sweet decorum," though perhaps Justin will
want to reenact the scene from "Monty Python's Life of Brian," in which the
Roman guard lectures Brian on the poor Latin grammar
[was: Re: [PEN-L:1835] Thatcher and nationalism ]
Brad wrote:
But the idea that it is no business of the rest of us what dictators do
to their own people *is* positively, totally, utterly, completely nutso.
I wrote:
This kind of dogmatic style is a total turn-off, simply a way of shutting
off
You should read more carefully. I wasn't saying that you should be filtered,
You need to write more carefully. You were:
Néstor wrote:
(The internal structure of Argentina is not the business of
interlopers from the imperialist world -- and interloping from
alleged leftists is the worst of
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