... traveling a landmark.


In Moliere's classic Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (some English translations make it The Bourgeois Gentleman, while others perhaps modernize a bit and call it The Middle Class Gentleman) Monsiour Jourdain discovers that he doesn't just speak:
By my faith! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing anything about it, and I am much obliged to you for having taught me that.
Interestingly, I often find opportunities to comment along the lines that "we didn't know we were speaking prose", expecting that anyone who hears it will know where it's from, or at least identify the intent. Often I get the feeling that the person I'm speaking to has no idea what I'm referring to.



Go to: A superhighway without information, or
Go to: Fort PC.