perpetuite

Updated: May 4, 2025

The night of the escape in order to keep up our morale we were helpfully told that both refugees had been snitched e'er they had got well without the limits of the town, and been remanded to a punishment consisting among other things, in travaux forces a perpetuite verbum sapientibus, he that hath ears, etc.

E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings - The Enormous Room