The meaning...
SIGH, since I've been signing off with 'without wax' in almost every autograph/comment I wrote for my friends, and also keeping the meaning in secret for quite some time now, (I guess this topic is quite stale) So! It's time for me to reveal it! *muahahahaha*
Right, it was around July last year when Patsy and Audelia discovered this phrase 'Without Wax'. Okay lah, nonsense. Aude spotted this word in my novel [Digital Fortress by Dan Brown]. This 'secret' phrase is used by the male protagonist each time he ends a letter/card saying: Without wax, david. Okay...
"During the Renaissance, Spanish sculptors who made mistakes while carving expensive marble often patched their flaws with cera - 'wax'. A statue that has no flaws and required no patching was hailed as a 'sculpture sin cera' or a 'sculpture without wax.' The phrase eventually came to mean anything honest or true. The English word 'sincere' evolved from the Spanish sin cera - 'without wax.'" [Extracted from Digital Fortress, pg508]
So, without wax simply means Yours sincerely. Now you know :)
Right, it was around July last year when Patsy and Audelia discovered this phrase 'Without Wax'. Okay lah, nonsense. Aude spotted this word in my novel [Digital Fortress by Dan Brown]. This 'secret' phrase is used by the male protagonist each time he ends a letter/card saying: Without wax, david. Okay...
"During the Renaissance, Spanish sculptors who made mistakes while carving expensive marble often patched their flaws with cera - 'wax'. A statue that has no flaws and required no patching was hailed as a 'sculpture sin cera' or a 'sculpture without wax.' The phrase eventually came to mean anything honest or true. The English word 'sincere' evolved from the Spanish sin cera - 'without wax.'" [Extracted from Digital Fortress, pg508]
So, without wax simply means Yours sincerely. Now you know :)
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