07-22-2011, 06:33 AM
Crisp and witty. I have spent about five minutes trying to sharpen the final line which to me, sounds slightly awkward, but no luck. I had hoped to work in 'declension' somehow, but it will have to wait a day of its own -- when the Passive, the Supine, the Middle, the Aorist will all march hand in hand with some Gerunds and Deponents and Jussives, down Penge High St.
I am of a generation for whom the word 'conjugation' was not thrown around lightly; it is almost as though you were cheerfully burning pages from the Good Book. It has only now occurred to me, that our weary masters were perhaps trying to inure us boys to the delights, and burdens, of things conjugal, with the emphasis on the burdens.
I am of a generation for whom the word 'conjugation' was not thrown around lightly; it is almost as though you were cheerfully burning pages from the Good Book. It has only now occurred to me, that our weary masters were perhaps trying to inure us boys to the delights, and burdens, of things conjugal, with the emphasis on the burdens.