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		<title>Kerr, Jean -- Essay (1955-11), &#8220;Our Gingerbread Dream House,&#8221; Ladies Home Journal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working on a proposition, hereafter to be known as Kerr&#8217;s law, which states in essence: All the houses you can afford to buy are depressing. Reprinted as &#8220;The Kerr-Hilton&#8221; in Please Don&#8217;t Eat the Daisies (1957).]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working on a proposition, hereafter to be known as Kerr&#8217;s law, which states in essence: All the houses you can afford to buy are depressing. </p>
<br><b>Jean Kerr</b> (1922-2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]<br>Essay (1955-11), &#8220;Our Gingerbread Dream House,&#8221; <i>Ladies Home Journal</i> 
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<a href="https://archive.org/details/pleasedonteatdai0000jean_z0o0/page/74/mode/2up?q=%22afford+to+buy%22">Reprinted</a> as "The Kerr-Hilton" in <i>Please Don't Eat the Daisies</i> (1957).


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		<title>Martial -- Epigrams [Epigrammata], Book  7, epigram  73 (7.73) (AD 92) [tr. Pott &#038; Wright (1921)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One house upon the Esquiline, One where patricians dwell, And hard beside Diana’s shrine You have a third as well. You live near mournful Cybele, You’ve Vesta’s fane in view; Jove’s ancient temple you can see. You look upon the new. With seven dwellings I despair To find you when I call, He who has [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One house upon the Esquiline,<br />
<span class="tab">One where patricians dwell,<br />
And hard beside Diana’s shrine<br />
<span class="tab">You have a third as well.<br />
You live near mournful Cybele,<br />
<span class="tab">You’ve Vesta’s fane in view;<br />
Jove’s ancient temple you can see.<br />
<span class="tab">You look upon the new.<br />
With seven dwellings I despair<br />
To find you when I call,<br />
<span class="tab">He who has mansions everywhere<br />
<span class="tab">Has not a home at all.</p>
<p><em>[Esquiliis domus est, domus est tibi colle Dianae,<br />
Et tua patricius culmina vicus habet;<br />
Hinc viduae Cybeles, illinc sacraria Vestae,<br />
Inde novum, veterem prospicis inde Iovem.<br />
Dic, ubi conveniam, dic, qua te parte requiram:<br />
Quisquis ubique habitat, Maxime, nusquam habitat.]</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<br><b>Martial</b> (AD c.39-c.103) Spanish Roman poet, satirist, epigrammatist [Marcus Valerius Martialis]<br><i>Epigrams [Epigrammata]</i>, Book  7, epigram  73 (7.73) (AD 92) [tr. Pott &#038; Wright (1921)] 
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(<a href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi1294.phi002.perseus-lat1:7.73">Source (Latin)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>Thou has a house on the Aventine hill,<br>
<span class="tab">Another where Diana's worshipped still,<br>
In the Patrician street more of them stand,<br>
<span class="tab">Hence thou beholdst within thine eyes, command<br>
The widowed Cybells, thence Vesta with all,<br>
<span class="tab">There either Jove earth'd in the Capitol.<br>
Where shall I meet thee? tell, where wilt appear?<br>
<span class="tab">He dwells just nowhere, that dwells everywhere.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epigrams_of_Martial/LzXgAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22dwells%20just%20nowhere%22">Fletcher</a> (1656)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>On Esquiline, and on Diana's hill,<br>
<span class="tab">Thou hast abodes thou not pretend'st to fill.<br>
But city-sites can ne'er suffice thy state:<br>
<span class="tab">Thou far from town must tow'r among the great:<br>
Hence Cybele's, thence Vesta's fane behold;<br>
<span class="tab">Here the new Jupiter, and there the old.<br>
Where shall I meet thee? who they mansion tells?<br>
<span class="tab">Who e'vrywhere inhabits, nowhere dwells.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epigrams_of_M_Val_Martial/vksOAAAAQAAJ?gbpv=1&bsq=%22nowhere%20dwells%22">Elphinston</a> (1782), Book 6, Part 1, ep. 10]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>You possess a house at Esquiliae, and one on the hill of Diana; and the street of Patricians amongst its roofs reckons yours. From one of your houses you behold the temple of Cybele, from another that of Vesta; you command a view both of the ancient and modern capitol. Say, where shall I meet with you? At what place shall I ask for you? Maximus! he who lives everywhere lives nowhere. <br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/martialmoderns00mart/page/132/mode/2up?q=maximus">Amos</a> (1858), ch. 3, ep. 103]</blockquote><br>




<blockquote>You have a mansion on the Esquiline hill, and a mansion on the hill of Diana; and another rears its head in the Patricians' quarter. From one of your dwellings you behold the temple of the widowed Cybele, from another that of Vesta; from others you look on the old and the new Capitol. Tell me where I may meet you; tell me whereabouts I am to look for you: a man who lives everywhere, Maximus, lives nowhere.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/martial_epigrams_book07.htm#:~:text=You%20have%20a%20mansion,everywhere%2C%20Maximus%2C%20lives%20nowhere.">Bohn's</a> Classical (1859)]</blockquote><br>


<blockquote>He has no home whose home is all the world.<br>
[ed. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dictionary_of_Quotations_classical/2rSZy0yVFm8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22whose%20home%22">Harbottle</a> (1897)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>On the Esquiline you have a house, you have a house on Diana's hill, and the Patrician Street holds a roof of yours; from this you survey the shrine of widowed Cybele, from that the shrine of Vesta; from here the new, from there the ancient temple of Jove. Say where I amy call upon you, say in what quarter I may look for you: he who lives everywhere, Maximus, lives nowhere.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Epigrams/w4ZfAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22On%20the%20Esquiline%22">Ker</a> (1919)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The Esquiline and Aventine are yours<br>
<span class="tab">And the Patrician Street confronts your doors;<br>
Thence widowed Cybele and Vesta's fire<br>
<span class="tab">And ancient Jove and modern you admire.<br>
Where shall I meet you, wither, pray, repair?<br>
<span class="tab">He has no home who lodges everywhere.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Martial_s_Epigrams/g35fAAAAMAAJ?gbpv=1&bsq=%22esquiline%20and%20aventine%22">Francis & Tatum</a> (1924), ep. 372]</blockquote><br>


<blockquote>That's a fine lace you have on Beacon Hill, Max,<br>
and that unlisted duplex out Huntington Avenue,<br>
and the old homestead in Tewksbury.<br>
<span class="tab"><span class="tab">From one you can see<br>
the big gilt dome; the second<br>
gives you an uninterrupted ecstatic view<br>
of the Mother Church; the third<br>
commands the County Poorhouse.<br>
<span class="tab"><span class="tab">And you<br>
invite me to dinner?<br>
<span class="tab">There?<br>
<span class="tab"><span class="tab">There?<br>
<span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Or there?<br>
Max, a man who lives everywhere<br>
<span class="tab"><span class="tab">lives nowhere.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/martialinenglish00mart/page/314/mode/2up?q=%22beacon+hill%22">Fitts</a> (1967), "... Are Many Mansions"]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>You have one home on the Esquiline,<br>
<span class="tab">Another on the Aventine,<br>
And from a third one you can see<br>
<span class="tab">The shrine of widowed Cybele.<br>
From still another you've a view<br>
<span class="tab">Of both the temples, old and new,<br>
Of Jupiter, In fact, a home<br>
<span class="tab">Of yours lies everywhere in Rome!<br>
Where can I find you when in town?<br>
<span class="tab">At what address can you be found?<br>
He who lives all over Rome<br>
<span class="tab">Never can be found at home.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/martialselectede0000unse/page/86/mode/2up?q=%22have+one+home%22">Marcellino</a> (1968), "A Far-Flung Friend"]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>A house on the Esquiline --<br>
and one on the Aventine --<br>
Patricius Street claims another rooftop of yours<br>
over here you have a shrine on the widowed Great Mother<br>
over there is your sacred hearth of Vesta<br>
elsewhere you display a new bust of Jove<br>
elsewhere a bust of Veiovis.<br>
<span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Can you tell me, Maximus,<br>
<span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">where to meet you,<br>
<span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">where to find you at home?<br>
Someone<br>
<span class="tab">who<br>
<span class="tab"><span class="tab">lives<br>
<span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">everywhere<br>
<span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">lives<br>
Nowhere.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/epigramsofmartia0000mart_q2h6/page/122/mode/2up?q=%22house+on+the+esquiline%22">Bovie</a> (1970)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>You have a house on the Esquiline, and a house on Diana's hill, and Patrician Row has a roof of yours. From one you view the shrine of bereaved Cybele, from another that of Vesta, and from this Jupiter's new temple, from that the old one. Tell me where I am to meet you, in what quarter to look for you. Who lives everywhere, Maximus, lives nowhere.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://dokumen.pub/martial-epigrams-books-6-10-2-0674995562-9780674995567.html">Shackleton Bailey</a> (1993)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>You’ve a house on the Esquiline, house on the Aventine,<br>
and Patrician Street owns a roof of yours too;<br>
add one with a view of poor Cybele’s shrine,<br>
<span class="tab">one Vesta’s, one Jupiter’s old, one his new.<br>
Tell me where to meet you, tell me where to find you:<br>
Who lives everywhere, Maximus, lives nowhere at all.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/Martial.php#anchor_Toc123798989:~:text=You%E2%80%99ve%20a%20house,nowhere%20at%20all.">Kline</a> (2006)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>Birds of the air know<br>
the man with a house everywhere<br>
has a home nowhere.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/martialart0000kenn/page/50/mode/2up?q=+home">Kennelly</a> (2008), "A geography"]</blockquote><br>



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