Et In Orcadia Ego

Earlier this week the Daily Telegraph's letters page had the amusing heading 'Et in Orcadia Ego' over a letter concerning why the Orkneys were considered the happiest place to live in the UK. The phrase is, of course, a pun on 'Et in Arcadia Ego'. Perhaps the sub-editor intended to import the sense of mortality which the original phrase carried, or perhaps it was simply the opportunity to create a pun.