Monday, December 24, 2018

mon., 24 dec., 2018: countdown 2 xmas, xxxiv.: give us This Day our Daily Curse


[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]
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 would probably reply,  “Father Christmas?   Santa?   Christmas?   Never heard of  ’em.  As for Saturnalia,  now there’s a holiday...”


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