08-04-2013, 02:19 PM
Heslopian wrote:
"To be English is to be the shadow of an Empire, "
I am very much impressed by that and this stanza of course too:
"The slow death of the aristocracy,
who bathed their whores in Ireland's blood
and clothed them with its skin,
is a great comedy at which I guffaw
into my two pound ice cream,
while clutching a program
covered by their mopey faces."
The English People are just as fine as any other People are.
But they did in fact loose a global empire.
Why am I
(as certainly not an English) here?
Fo many reasons but maybe mostly because I like Edmund Burke.
And I am not (just as he was really not really)
an enemy of the French Revolution. ,-)
"To be English is to be the shadow of an Empire, "
I am very much impressed by that and this stanza of course too:
"The slow death of the aristocracy,
who bathed their whores in Ireland's blood
and clothed them with its skin,
is a great comedy at which I guffaw
into my two pound ice cream,
while clutching a program
covered by their mopey faces."
The English People are just as fine as any other People are.
But they did in fact loose a global empire.
Why am I
(as certainly not an English) here?
Fo many reasons but maybe mostly because I like Edmund Burke.
And I am not (just as he was really not really)
an enemy of the French Revolution. ,-)