Whys And Wherefores Amount To The Same Sponsorship
Sydney Morning Herald
Saturday December 28, 2002
A reminder to headline writers (and cartoonists): ``wherefore" means ``why", not ``where" (``Wherefore art thou, Alfa Romeo?", Herald, December 27).
And so, when Juliet says ``Wherefore art thou Romeo?" (without a comma), she is not wondering where Romeo is but why he has to have that name that is, why does he have to belong to the enemy Montague clan.
I suppose the answer to your headline's question must be: for advertising or sponsorship purposes.
Tony Barker,
Dundas, December 27.
Wherefore indeed! The weather conditions were certainly not clement at the start of the Sydney to Hobart race, but surely your correspondents would have glimpsed the famous logo through the gloom and thus concluded that perhaps it was because a well-known Italian automobile company had sponsored the leading yacht.
James Birch,
Bronte, December 27.
Again the media trumpet the glory of the Sydney to Hobart yachts, outrageously affirming their salute to the high-hat rich. The armada of jibs, mains, mizzens, genoas, spinnakers and their cleats, batons, booms, stays, yards, gaffs, clews and cheek blocks, mocking the dispossessed and underprivileged.
I am disgusted. The toys of those who screw thousands on the stockmarket, through the money markets, in corporate fraud, perform in a theatre of the absurd; pointless high-tech, extravagant indulgence.
My whimsy during this extravaganza for the filthy rich is my vision splendid of porky entrepreneurs, soggy and cramped and bobbing, shouting into the sea and overcome by the technicolour yawn and liquid laughter.
Frank Hainsworth,
Burleigh (Qld), December 27.
© 2002 Sydney Morning Herald