LATIN: Patrem natalem mortus est. ‡‡
‡‡)
“Father Christmas is dead.” / “Santa Claus is dead.” — a reverse-engineered translation of what 19th.
C. Germ. philologist & couch pope supreme 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 there’s a holiday...”
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