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From: "P. T. Rourke" <ptrourke@mediaone.net>
To: "Classics List" <classics@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Novus Ordo Saeclorum
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>A gruff old gent rasped,
>"Say, perfesser, I need to know something.  On the back of the dollar bill
>there's a Latin phrase 'Novus Ordo Seclorum.'  Is it true that that
>could be translated 'New World Order'?"

>While sitting in a barber's chair in Arlington, Texas, I had precisely the
>same question asked of me by my elderly, male tonsor.  Hmmmm... ????

>I think the skeptical reading of "novus ordo seclorum" is pretty
>commonplace on certain segments of the political spectrum.

These would, I imagine, be the same segments whose members are greatly
disturbed to learn that George Washington was a Mason.  Bembo and Casaubon
could tell you . . .


P. T. Rourke, who is referring to the characters in Eco's Foucault's
Pendulum.
ptrourke@mediaone.net



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