The keyword here is ‘ridiculus’. Incidentally, I believe it is ‘nascetur’, not ‘nascitur’, from ‘nascere’, but the last time I looked at latin books was in 1963... Cheers R Inviato da iPhone
Il giorno 24 set 2019, alle ore 21:11, Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com> ha scritto:
28 *million* air miles works out to nearly 77,000 air miles *per day*!
And 1840 nights in hotel rooms cumulates to over five years, just for the board of directors alone (not counting staff or "funded travelers").
When comparing this 1% lifestyle of resource consumption against the actual work product created the following phrase comes to mind:
"parturiunt montes nascitur ridiculus mus" ("The mountain labored and brought forth a mouse.")
--karl--
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