In the middle of an epic western ...

Theodore H. Mann thmann at juno.com
Fri Jul 24 09:20:01 EDT 1998


I am also a great fan of Lonesome Dove, which I am presently reading for
the umpteenth time.  Can anyone translate the Latin phrase below?  If it
is dirty, contact me off-list.  Thanks.

Theodore "Ted" H. Mann
Orchard Lake, Michigan
thmann at juno.com

On Thu, 23 Jul 1998 21:20:18 -0400 "Carl W. Conrad"
<cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> writes:

>I am an avid reader of some kinds of popular fiction, mostly 
>mysteries, but
>I eat up novels by some writers such as Ann Tyler, John Irving, and 
>Larry
>McMurtry. I was enthralled by McMurtry's great western epic, _Lonesome
>Dove_, when it appeared several years ago and while enjoying a 
>rip-roaring
>story kept pondering the strange Latin motto that recurs in it:

>	UVA UVAM VIVENDO FIT ...

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