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From: david bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
To: Håkan Anderson Klinte <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: brit poets <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 04 February 2000 00:04
Subject: re: The View from Sweden etc
| Britain that is the UK that is England plus attachments that is the Home
| Counties plus the Provinces plus other places (useful for the grouse and
| Scots castles etc) is a narrow, socially-tight, fulminating-inside,
| creative, convention-bound, little, power-focused, protest-fueled sort of
| place where the intensities of class conflict, power brokerage and
| exclusion, easy money and bloody hard (more etc's) are magnified by the
| length of historical tunnels that lead back from and to the the 'now'.
Hear Hear
| i sometimes think of this society as one sustained by the fiction that the
| Civil war was ever resolved.
be that as it may, I have been thinking of the declaration that the class
war is over and we should all pull together - made usually by those who are
on top at the current stage of the war
Lawrence
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