To: Rummyfan
Steyn expects his readers to be pretty well-read.
He doesn't even explain his title. Gradus ad Parnassum is a famous music textbook. Parnassus being the mountain where Apollo and the Muses hung out.
2 posted on
07/03/2012 6:25:38 AM PDT by
AnAmericanMother
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To: AnAmericanMother
4 posted on
07/03/2012 6:36:12 AM PDT by
GOPJ
(Way to go Kraft Foods. I now associate your brand with anal sex.(Oreo cookies) Freeper agere_contra)
To: AnAmericanMother
The old pulp detective stories, like "The Saint," expected the reader to know French, Spanish, German, Latin ... or to hop to a dictionary if they wanted to know what the characters were saying. Old science fiction is full of multilingual jokes, too; one of my favorites was a disgusting kind of eel, used as dog food, called avocati.
5 posted on
07/03/2012 6:48:09 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
("The Lord will rescue me from every evil threat and bring me safe to His heavenly kingdom.")
To: AnAmericanMother
Steyn expects his readers to be pretty well-read. Maybe they should have dropped out of school and read books like him.
7 posted on
07/03/2012 6:49:19 AM PDT by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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