thurs., 24 dec., 2015: countdown 2 xmas, pt. xxxiv.: give us This Day our Daily Curse

LATIN:  Patrem natalem mortus est.  ‡‡

‡‡ ) “Father Christmas is dead.”  /  “Santa Claus is dead.”  —  a reverse-engineered translation of what 19^th. C. Germ. philologist & couch pope Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche might have said if he’d gotten around to it,  to which an ancient Roman probably reply,  “Father Christmas?   Santa?   Christmas?   Never heard of ’em.  As for Saturnalia,  now that’s a holiday...”

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