Word: fie
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fie on the popular demythologizers of the infancy gospel! Which is more truly bread, the insipid white loaf one buys in the supermarket or the eucharist? Patently the eucharist, as the Lord expressly states in the sixth chapter of John's gospel. Which is more truly history, the narration of Luke and Matthew (transeat its literary form), or the eviscerated version lucubrated by the gnosis of the demythologizers? Evidently the former. If the hermeneutical scalpel is to be wielded in public, one must use great care lest he convey to the little ones that Scrooge was correct when...
...Fie on your militaristic approach to mononucleosis, your implication that it mainly afflicts fledgling generals, admirals, and their sweethearts...
Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women all above. But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends'. There's Hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit, Burning, scalding, stench, consumption, fie, fie, fie! Pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination...