# Balzacorama **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [December 2, 2002, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/balzacorama/140073 "2002-12-02T23:38:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rosencrantz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@rosencrantz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rosencrantz)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/balzacorama/140073/1 "2002-12-02T23:38:18Z")
hi. great site and all that. just as a footnote to [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2\_240.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_240.html) i’d like to pose the horrifying thought that -(o)rama might make another comeback any time now. Balzac’s novel ‘Old Goriot’, set in 1819, has a fantastically annoying character who wanders around saying ‘healthorama’ and ‘souporama’ at intervals, after the new invention of the Diorama. Never two without three… Huw ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/balzacorama/140073/2 "2002-12-03T18:43:02Z")
Very true! I had forgotten about that. For the curious, here is the text of the novel, online: [Le père Goriot](http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/ConsultationTout.exe?O=101423&T=2) ---
**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/balzacorama/140073/3 "2002-12-04T01:24:39Z")
Ooh, Cecil will certainly want to add this to his answer. Thanks for mentioning it. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/balzacorama/140073/4 "2002-12-05T23:23:58Z")
So why would this lead to a comeback now? Did that book just see another printing, or become required reading in a bunch of high school classes, or something?