Not knowing any youngsters, I indulge in correspondence with someone a decade older than me. Faintly interesting cultural references and quotes we've discussed or just used in the last two weeks are listed below. Would younger people know these too?
Post hoc ergo proctor hoc
"Now hast thou but one bare hour to live
And then thou must be damned perpetually"
Il Miglior Fabbro
Audrey Niffeneger
"the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me"
The trouble with Verlaine was he was always chasing Rimbauds...
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