<p>After understanding (quote), I'm curious as to how one might cause the statement to execute.  My first thought was</p>

<pre><code>(defvar x '(+ 2 21))
`(,@x)
</code></pre>

<p>but that just evaluates to <code>(+ 2 21)</code>, or the contents of <code>x</code>.  How would one run code that was placed in a list?</p>

```
(eval '(+ 2 21))
```