SLSL, TSR, "La Puta"

[Paul Mackin]

Mutualcode at aol.com wrote:

>Was it Luther who said: "That whore reason!"
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>I think so, I just can't remember where.
>["Where's that slip of paper..."]
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>Terrence might know. Are you out there, T.
>(In here? Christ knows, what's the d.)?
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>respectfully
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If Terrance won't speak up I'll venture it probably would have been said 
with reference to Thomas Aquinas' theology, or maybe the Pope. Too early 
for the Jesuits. Just guessing however.

Gulliver first describes the Laputians thusly: . . . . it seems the 
minds of these people are so taken up with intense speculations, that 
they neither can speak nor attend to the discourse of others without 
being aroused by some external taction upon the organs of speech and 
hearing . . . (Part Three of Gulliver's Travels)

Gulliver comically misderivates Laputa.

p.