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#153616 01/11/06 05:17 PM
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damn, I'd got it down as I got chucked outa the poetry club - still, close...

#153617 01/11/06 06:14 PM
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Latin disjecta is the past participle of dicio 'to disperse, scatter'; it's an adjective modifying membra (neuter nom. pl.) 'limbs', and not the gen. sg. of poeta, poetae. :et's see, club would be clava, no, wait, that's a cudgel, not a group. How about ex societate poetarum jactus sum?


Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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