My old Latin teacher taught us
Carpe Diem. “Seize the day”…
What nonsense!
I don’t know what things were like in Latin times,
whether their concept of day was
radically
different to ours
(Did you know they had no word for “blue”? I digress)
But the metaphysical notion of “seizing” in the sense of forcibly grasping and holding in one’s hands one full rotation around the Sun…
that’s beyond me.
No wonder the language died out.
No blue sky thinking.
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