sun., 24 dec., 2023: countdown 2 xmas, xxiv.: give us This Day our Daily Curse

[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat & total & entire 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 19^th. 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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