 |
| LATIN, LIKE YOU'VE NEVER KNOWN IT. |
| This tasteful little book of pretty profanities and pungently perfidious prose is perfectly paired for the insulting the witless, clueless, gormless, worthless, charmless, legless(?), sexless, disreputable, insufferable, venal, etc., etc., or perhaps just a source of useful threats to mutter under your breath in front of the basic anathemas, (teachers, druggies, cheerleaders, social workers). Available from B&N, that's Barnes and Noble for the ignorant masses, for a mere $ 4.98--couch debris, friends, couch debris-- the little hardcover is also packed with pictures of Roman statues, most of them clothed in style of Adam and Evette. The quotes aren't taken from trashy antediluvian subways either, we're talking quotes from da masters: Cicero, Ovid, Horace, Virgil, and all those crazy Roman satirists with styluses like red-hot broadswords. Besides, Mr. Mardas is a 22 year old graduate from the University of Cambridge with a Masters Degree in the Classics, and he knows his stuff. (Mmm-mmmm, those Cambridge guys.) And Ms. Lovric has been in the compilation business since the womb. All we can say for prudes is caveat emptor! |
|
 |
| Exceptional Excerpts: "*QUI GRAVES ES NIMIUN, POTES HINC IAM, LECTOR, ABIRE QUO LIBET. If you are likely to be the really pernickey thyp of reader, do you mind leacing now? Just head in the direction of absolutely anywhere else. Martial, Epigram XI.16 *QUOD MINIMUM SPECIMEN IN TE INGENII? What microscopic evidence of wit can be found in you? Cicero, In Pisonem *IMPURAE MATRIS PROLAPSUS AB ALVO Slimy son of a bitch! Ovid, Ibis *FOETOREM EXTREMAE LATRINAE You are the stench of a low life latrine. Apuleius, Metamorphoses I *QUALES ILLIC HOMUNCULI What weird little munchkins! Apuleuis, Metamorphoses IX *NUNC MORERE! Now die!! Virgil Aeneid II" |
 |