But wait, what about all those tourist dollars? Unemployed coachmen,
butlers, bodyguards, etc? Not to speak of papparazzi, or the dreams
of Americans hungry for history? Surely all these things are worth a
bit of feudalism. And then there's the question of what to put on the
coinage. Probably would force the adoption of the euro to avoid bloodshed.
Imagine Maggie Thatcher on the pound note. That's what you'd get. And
some bugger would want to carve her face into the white cliffs of Dover.
Or are you proposing the restoration of a dynasty not selected for
religious correctness, the Stuarts, perhaps. I could get behind that,
I rather like the idea of large herds of cocker spaniels.
Seriously, there was an "art" exhibit that toured US museums of the
Romanov crown jewels. Awful, incredibly vulgar stuff, and the only
museum show I've ever been to in which the informational cartouches
began with a recitation of how many carats of this or that stone. On
the way in were larger than life portraits of the Romanovs, lined up
like tenpins. I found myself overcome with bitterness. What a bunch
of thugs. And in front of all that glitter all I could think of was
"this is the blood of my ancestors." Must be a similar feeling for
you subjects. Tho your lot haven't had the power to do much evil in a
while, and Charles does seem a cut above most of them.
Mark
At 07:28 AM 1/18/2006, you wrote:
>and don't i know it. We're in some quasi state - citizen, subject -
>the oath for immigrants to the UK now includes the phrase citizen.
>Contradictions abound.
>
>The sooner the crown is levered from the hands of the
>Saxe-Coburg-Gothas and put into the British Museum the better.
>
>Roger
>On 1/18/06, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Roger But we are here still subjects- not citizens-on our knees(knees
> > permitting)to her majesty the queen defender of the faith and the
> > establishment
> > P EU P
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> > poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roger Day
> > Sent: 18 January 2006 00:51
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: "Environment in Crisis" - Grim Grim Grim
> >
> > on this side of the water, the european human rights convention has
> > just been enshrined in UK law. dire things were forecast, none of
> > which have come true. For the UK, for the first time, people have
> > rights, not by omission, but by the letter of the law. I think a
> > written document for such things is a good to have, ymmv.
> >
>
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