“Barren are the years behind me. This is the first day of my span, here is the threshold of my life.”
Steriles transmisimus annos:
haec aevi mihi prima dies, hic limina vitae.
ii, line 12
Silvae, Book IV
“And the prospects for my future social life couldn't possibly be barrener.
Did I tell you that the prospects for my future social life couldn't be barrener?”
Good Intentions (1942), So Does Everybody Else, Only Not So Much
Context: And what really turns my corpuscles to ice,
I carry around clippings and read them to people twice.
And I know what I am doing while I am doing it and I don't want to do it but I can't help doing it and I am just another Ancient Mariner,
And the prospects for my future social life couldn't possibly be barrener.
Did I tell you that the prospects for my future social life couldn't be barrener?
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