File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9803, message 1194


Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 12:46:39 -0500
From: "Charles Brown" <charlesb-AT-CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us>
Subject: Re: M-TH: cyberseminar announcement. "rerum"


Carrol,
    Yes. The struggle continues. Victory is certain.
                             Charles

>>> Carrol Cox <cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> 03/31 9:41 AM >>>
Charles writes to Hugh, "Lets see, "sunt" means, what?" they are", third
person plural? "rerum" means "thing". Why don't you tell me what lacrimae
means, tears?"

Some days Hugh likes to combine his Trotskyism and his classicism.
Bringing in his classic education by using this quotation is "no fair" by
the rules of kids' games (which is what Hugh plays), because *res* (gen.
plural *rerum*) is untranslatable in many contexts. Perhaps something like
"Tears flow from the roots of the world" or in the immortal words of
Jimmy Carter, "Life just ain't fair." More briefly, "Shit happens."

Carrol



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