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Venia Legendi

A commonplace book: quotations, reading notes, and occasional disquisitions

29 April 2008

Found

"Jacques Herbrand aurait détesté Bourbaki."
--Claude Chevalley

Posted by Alix Cavanaugh at 29.4.08 1 comment:

A note

Somewhere in the Platonic heaven of unwritten doggerel, there is a poem rhyming venia legendi with venial effendi. I learned of it, as Mr Humbert learned of genuflection lubricity, from a sign sleeping by the road.
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