Plinary indulgence makes collemullas of us all

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  • "Conscience does make cowards of us all": William Shakespeare, Hamlet, III.1.83
  • plenary: all-encompassing
  • indulgence: personal vise, like alcohol
  • Plenary indulgence: In the Catholic church, a cancellation of any and all penance for one's confessed (and forgiven) sins
  • Pliny and Columella: Pliny [the Elder] was a writer on nature, Columella on agriculture, both in the first century AD; together their work is the most important on natural science of the Roman Empire. Pliny the Elder died because he got too near the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.
  • colleunella (Italian): colonel → overlaying the three tailors with the three soldiers in the park