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  1. caroljane
    Touche monsieur! ( Single entendre) lololol
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    Going back even farther, Alfred the Great was the founder of England, and he was the least charismatic character you could imagine. Sickly, pious, a reluctant soldier, suffering constantly from a vague but debilitating ailment of the bowels. Yet there w0uld be no England without him (or his sons), and he is justly the only English monarch ever called the Great. The other deserving of that name, needed no other than Elizabeth.
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    There's something unique about Great Britain, methinks. Culturally, they were relatively free of the monarch-worship suffered by other peoples in Europe. The citizenry of that country always had something of an everyman disposition. This is a very important insight. Some historians have traced the English people's distrust of absolutism to the relative democracy of early Anglo-Saxon tribes, whose leaders lived among them and ruled largely with their consent. This is true, but to my mind something of a romantic notion. The brutal imposition of the Norman feudal system after the Conquest destroyed that form of democracy, although folk memory (Robin Hood etc, although he was transposed from two centuries later)and later popular insurgents solidified a new English individualism.
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    Straits, if you don't mind. Carol Straitlaced
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    Nevermind songs! Juliet was only fourteen, and Shakespeare had her engaged to some old creep and then he killed her off! What kind of mind would fantasize like that? If only Dr Diana had been there....
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    It is all so clear now - as the Eureka moment when Peikoff finally got it about Western culture, after the Oscars... the clear cries for help from Del Shannon and Steve Lawrence...Go Away Little Girl! Young Girl Get out of my Mind!,, how could we have been so blind? I see a double PhD. in the bright future of DR SOMEBODY!
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    And Teen Angel - I mean, he is fantasizing about a girl who is not only dead, but was so mentally backward that she ignored an oncoming train to retrieve a piece of jewellery. Indeed, any man who thinks about teenage girls at all, needs immediate treatment. Thank Galt Dr Diana is there to show the way.
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    There's also "Dream on teenage Queen" (dunno whose). Jeez, were ALL these songs written by creepy middle-aged mentally ill men?
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    lol no way, you will also send a download of Atlas and enrol them in Students for Liberty!
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    Nihilist caterwaulers! I am sure a true Objectivist would think only of melodic Neil Sedaka whilst leaving himself alone.
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    Unlike ff I do not subscribe to the "Great Man Theory" or any theory of history, as it is not a science or an art, but it is interesting to look at this period and see how crucial the women were, if only as pawns. The three Catholic queens became the focus of Protestant fanaticism. Henrietta Maria for her influence on Charles 1; Catherine of Braganza as Titus Oates target (and as I mentioned, her not having an heir, and Charles II refusing to divorce her) and Mary of Modena reinforcing James's Catholicism. Of course it was all the fault of "the wisest fool in Christendom" for not marrying his heir to a Protestant princess in the first place.
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    Also, England would not have been in hock to France through those secret loans, and there would have been little Continental interest in reclaiming England for Mother Church.
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    I disagree that there would have been no Glorious Revolution without the Civil War. The forces of Protestantism vs Catholicism would still have remained strong and in opposition. The crucial factor was the childlessness of Charles II. If his father had retained the throne and Charles married off young to a fertile wife, bonehead James would never have been king and needed to be booted out.
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    - You obviously cannot even look at cover art properly - clearly you are an uneducated dolt intent on misinterpreting me or just too stupid to understand... S.W.
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    It is the "perverse fantasies" in her fiction which have kept it so enduringly popular. In her life Rand had to deal with her own interesting psycho-sexuality. Personally I think when she fell in love with Frank's looks she expected the dominant masterful Cyrus to emerge in the bedroom, and I don't think he did. Also I wonder (and doubt) if she had been in the bedroom with anybody before she got married.
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    I shudder to think in what uncouth Midwestern accents the above thoughts are uttered.
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    I would dearly love to see Perigo stranded somewhere with a group of Newfoundlanders, preferably in a restaurant. He would get very, very hungry before an interpreter arrived.
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    lol. I just despaired over this one on KASS KASSED, but the example of your (and the good Doctor's) hardihood in sitting through entire podcasts of Dr Mrs Dr and Dr Pope Peikoff, has re-energized me. I will continue to monitor the situation in Lesser Bavaria, to spare others, as you continue to provide news and analysis from the Orgo-front, at who knows what cost and danger to yourselves.
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    I thought I was having girls and ate chicken every other day. Hope my sons don't see this article.
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    Thanks for this George. Eliot is a heroine of mine and it is beyond great to know that besides her genius, she could also pull the lads! I think Lewes was a lucky man.
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    Baal and Brant, you can both stop hinting now. Yes, you come across as charismatic and charming. A little crazy maybe, but definitely not boring.
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    "For how can man die better than when facing fearful odds/ For the ashes of their fathers and the temples of their gods?"
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    Conceded, absolutely. That is a charisma niche, though. Persuading both men and women to throw themselves into a new way of life, takes something more.
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    Just stumbled on a recounting of the Principal of Solo, of his being ejected from a dinner party for insulting the accent of another guest. I swear I am not making this up. The accent in which one speaks is apparently a high value, a shining standard of passionate reason. Words fail me, in English or French, broad Maritime or joual or parisienne. I give up.
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    Dear Diary, Our first outing together alone since becoming parents! Well, not alone quite, it was some kind of sports event here on dear old Anglesey, I did suggest a cosy dinner at the Crown and Anchor but that was apparently not on - K looked delightful, but it was rather worrisome calling every half hour to check on Georgie-- dear Carole was quite cross the last time and said she had just got him to sleep, and please to not call again until morning!! K said, obviously she does not understand how a new mother feels, it was so different in her day, and I agreed fervently, Fervent agreement is the best course to take these days, I find. Ich Dien W.