Oh. My. Fucking. Supreme. Being. That exists? I'm not sure my masochism extends that far.
I was googling for info on Brount as PoGS is the only thing I've got that gives any info on him, and predictably about five out of ten hits were to "Robespierre was really nice to his dog, that makes him just like the Nazis" pieces. Which makes me wonder if Robespierre would be politically more palatable to these people if he had mistreated his dog.
Although I also found this (http://peterfoolen.blogspot.com/2009/02/ian-hamilton-finlay-brount.html) which amused me.
Tony Scherman is also a member of the revolutionary-séances-in-head club and there's an utterly ridiculous quote from him on Saint-Just net re-treading the tedious Robespierre was obviously so repressed and evil he must have been gay line. Which does make me wonder who is the real Nazi, the person who shares some incidental trait with a Nazi leader or the person who shares political opinions with them. Hmm?
Randomly - dog ownership in the UK is highest where the votes for neo-fascist parties are lowest.
Clearly Hilary Mantel just holds séances in her head with Revolutionaries. She just can't admit it, because then everyone would know she was crazy.
If I were to go mad, that would definately be the crazy I'd apply for. It doesn't sound too bad, does it?
I wish I could really ask her that. Just to see her reaction.
She'd probably ask why you were wasting your precious youth in academic study when surely what you want to be doing is having babies. And then patronise you some more for being under twenty-seven.
Sadder still, it's not immediately obvious what can be done about it; it can be hard to break out of these kinds of cycles. Education could potentially do a great deal, but a truly different education could only come with a different society....
Its true, and it is difficult to know what to do about it, because it's a bit of a chicken and egg scenario, because you need to educate people to have the confidence to challenge "experts" [insert non-elitist education rant here]. That's why I do find Mantel's "Anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true."/"As a guideline for the reader, I can proffer this: whatever seems most unlikely in this book is not made up by me." the vilest of her vile views because it discourages questioning and disempowers the reader.
I have to admit I dismissed the Robespierre-is-just-a-killer as revolution_fr's community troll.
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Date: Sunday, 6 June 2010 08:51 (UTC)I was googling for info on Brount as PoGS is the only thing I've got that gives any info on him, and predictably about five out of ten hits were to "Robespierre was really nice to his dog, that makes him just like the Nazis" pieces. Which makes me wonder if Robespierre would be politically more palatable to these people if he had mistreated his dog.
Although I also found this (http://peterfoolen.blogspot.com/2009/02/ian-hamilton-finlay-brount.html) which amused me.
Tony Scherman is also a member of the revolutionary-séances-in-head club and there's an utterly ridiculous quote from him on Saint-Just net re-treading the tedious Robespierre was obviously so repressed and evil he must have been gay line. Which does make me wonder who is the real Nazi, the person who shares some incidental trait with a Nazi leader or the person who shares political opinions with them. Hmm?
Randomly - dog ownership in the UK is highest where the votes for neo-fascist parties are lowest.
Clearly Hilary Mantel just holds séances in her head with Revolutionaries. She just can't admit it, because then everyone would know she was crazy.
If I were to go mad, that would definately be the crazy I'd apply for. It doesn't sound too bad, does it?
I wish I could really ask her that. Just to see her reaction.
She'd probably ask why you were wasting your precious youth in academic study when surely what you want to be doing is having babies. And then patronise you some more for being under twenty-seven.
Sadder still, it's not immediately obvious what can be done about it; it can be hard to break out of these kinds of cycles. Education could potentially do a great deal, but a truly different education could only come with a different society....
Its true, and it is difficult to know what to do about it, because it's a bit of a chicken and egg scenario, because you need to educate people to have the confidence to challenge "experts" [insert non-elitist education rant here]. That's why I do find Mantel's "Anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true."/"As a guideline for the reader, I can proffer this: whatever seems most unlikely in this book is not made up by me." the vilest of her vile views because it discourages questioning and disempowers the reader.
I have to admit I dismissed the Robespierre-is-just-a-killer as