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Waiting to have sounds beamed into my neck to learn if all that delicious ice cream is clogging arteries to my brain.
It would explain a lot.
Our #brain has a sweet tooth Nerve cells that tell to us we are full also make us crave #sweets ! https://www.mpg.de/24159607/0211-neur-dessert-stomach-emerges-in-the-brain-153735-x
And yet what harm can there be
in presenting the truth with a laugh, as teachers sometimes give
their children biscuits to coax them into learning their ABC?
[Quamquam ridentem dicere verum
quid vetat? ut pueris olim dant crustula blandi
doctores, elementa velint ut discere prima.]
Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet and satirist [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, “Qui fit, Mæcenas,” l. 24ff (1.1.24-26) (35 BC) [tr. Rudd (2005 ed.)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/74618/
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