Sandro Botticelli Madonna and Child painting

existing texts of the sentence are grammatically discrepant, and where it's supposed to appear in the most reliable context we've gotlacunae : the missing fragments are either in the CACAFILE somewhere or among the ones you ate this morning." He happened to brandish a pair of library-shears as he spoke, and I gripped my stick to parry any move to disembowel me. But all they wanted, even as his senior colleague had declared, was an opinion from me on the question whether to the best of my knowledge the crucial sentence ought to be translatedFlunkèd who would Pass orPassèd are the Flunked. On that question, obviously, depended whole systems of others, perhaps even the overall sense of the Founder's Scroll.
"Mind you, we agree on what each version means," the young man said briskly. "What we call theA reading means that one ought to desire to fail, since the desire to pass is vain and vanity's flunkèd -- not to mention the famous tradition that Passage is to be found only in the knowledge of Failure,et cetera et cetera ."
The older man adjusted his glasses and cleared his throat. "Well,