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montagnarde1793) wrote2005-10-09 09:27 pm
montagnarde1793) wrote2005-10-09 09:27 pm
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I have a complaint. Probably several by the time I am done.
What, if I may ask, is the "Reign of Terror"? Yes, I am honestly asking. I've never heard of it. Could the good people of the English-speaking world be confusing it with "La Terreur" or to put it in a way that is more acceptable to aforementioned people, the Terror? Ah, yes, that must be it. Where precisely does this term come from then, if not the French? I'm thinking perhaps from the likes of Carlyle, Dickens, The Baroness Orczy, and their ilk, to make the Revolution seem in the eyes of the English-speaking masses somehow sinister. What a coincidence that I am right!
Yet, if we hold this to be the case, why is this monicker so all-pervasive today? Who can say? Old habits die hard. But that is not an excuse!
I hate my life.
Did I mention I'm still doing my homework at 10:50 on a Sunday night?
Yeah.
-Suzanne
What, if I may ask, is the "Reign of Terror"? Yes, I am honestly asking. I've never heard of it. Could the good people of the English-speaking world be confusing it with "La Terreur" or to put it in a way that is more acceptable to aforementioned people, the Terror? Ah, yes, that must be it. Where precisely does this term come from then, if not the French? I'm thinking perhaps from the likes of Carlyle, Dickens, The Baroness Orczy, and their ilk, to make the Revolution seem in the eyes of the English-speaking masses somehow sinister. What a coincidence that I am right!
Yet, if we hold this to be the case, why is this monicker so all-pervasive today? Who can say? Old habits die hard. But that is not an excuse!
I hate my life.
Did I mention I'm still doing my homework at 10:50 on a Sunday night?
Yeah.
-Suzanne