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[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

As the story goes, John Steinbeck was told by one of his professors that he would become an author when pigs fly,[...]

The accurate phrase is “ad astra per ALAS porci,” which means that Steinbeck in his snarky revenge was demonstrating far and wide that he was a bad student after all – and thanks to his famous but inaccurate imprint, countless people are running around with tattoos which actually say “to the stars through other pigs.”{“ad astra per alia porci”]

https://sluggoonthestreet.tumblr.com/post/188811241794/as-the-story-goes-john-steinbeck-was-told-by-one

this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2025

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