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You can be excused for not understanding the expression June scratched into the mass of her room in the Waterford house before escaping it in The Handmaid's Tale season 2 scene 13, as it requires either recalling a short trade 19 scene prior or else a learning of both Latin and rubbish. ' Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum ' was the title of the fourth scene of season 1 and the expression June found in the wardrobe, recorded by a past handmaid (who we realize wound up ending it all). Over a tense round of scrabble, she later asks Fred what it implies, to which he answers: "Don't give the rats a chance to crush you down." The importance of the expression and it later being writ enormous over June's bed is clear, yet its starting point is less so. "Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum" has become a kind of mobilizing sob for women's liberation and is oft-inked - advanced by Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's tale however not...