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Home / Community / Music forum / the new jack penate song is really good. reminds me of something else, can't work it out. big improvement, his old singles made me feel ill. furryfan | 10 Mar
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Paulhitsheet just watched the flying scotsman getting knocked out of wimbledon saving the threat of a federer thrashing for next year. off to jack penate
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July 30, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word penate
"I was so pleased to hear that you have definitely chosen this neighbourhood to set up your taber . . ."
She was going to say "tabernacle" but it occurred to her that the word was Hebraic and discourteous to a Jew who might see some innuendo in it. And so she pulled herself up in order to choose another of the expressions that were familiar to her, that is to say a ceremonious expression: "to set up, I should say, your penates." (It is true that these deities do not appertain to the Christian religion either, but to one which has been dead for so long that it no longer claims any devotees whose feelings one need be afraid of hurting.
--Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright, pp 595-596 of the Modern Library paperback edition
March 25, 2009