>Charles
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>Mounted Parthian archers were trained to continue firing arrows into the enemy while in real or feigned retreat, creating the obvious military advantage. "Parthian shot" has come to mean any "last words" or attacks fired by somebody who claims to be leaving the scene.
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>As for your phrase: hmm, if the phrase is as I assume from your allusion to music, then it presumably refers to an unacceptable prerequisite or association as discovered by both Bach and Handel. Nice!
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>This is getting like Trivial Pursuits!
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>Regards
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>JR
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
