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131walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs — The idea of ‘planting trees for posterity’ is much older than the specific references to walnuts and pears. Cf. CICERO Cato Major vii. 24 ‘serit arbores, quae alteri saeclo prosint,’ ut ait Statius noster in Synephebis, ‘he plants trees, which… …
132unheard-of — adjective previously unknown a first novel by an unheard of writer developments on an unheard of scale • Similar to: ↑unknown * * * adj 1 UNTHINKABLE, inconceivable, unbelievable, unimaginable, undreamed of, unprecedented, extraordinary,… …
