Thursday, January 9, 2020

thurs., 9 jan., 2020: the french are a fine race, pompe à chiasse, xxxix.: 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.]
FRENCH:  « On ne saurait faire d’omelette sans casser des œufs... »  

‡)  “You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs…”
NOTE: … Though attributed to Stalin, or one of his lieutenants, Lazar Kaganovitch, this wwas originally from a royalist. François de Charette, defender of King Louis xvi., & a leader of a counterrevolutionary Vendée revolt, made this statement during his trial in 1796. 

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