Vomitorium
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Interesting item from the Independent in the last couple of days … here’s the incipit: Whatever your Classics teacher said to wake up slackers at the back of the class, the Roman diet in ancient times was not always a blow-out of tender larks’ tongues and roasted flamingo followed by a medicinal visit to the…
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Alas … after going over a year without catching an example of the egregious misuse of the word, Will Self in an opeddish thing in BBC Magazine (of all places): For what I think we require, as a society, is some sort of collective vomitorium. Not, you appreciate, that I expect you – like those…
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