FLASHING THE GUARDIAN -- A BOOKS BLOGGERS' REBELLION : The unheroic censor with a death wish Part 1: In which Norman Mailer stars in an experiment in search engine optimisation By ACCIACCATURE 3 February 2009 When Norman Mailer died in 2007, informed opinion – in the blogosphere, people who had read at least two of his books – was split. The army of readers who saw him as one of the most despicable misogynists writing fiction in the 20th century was perfectly matched by warriors on the other side, who raged that the label wasn’t just unwarranted but tantamount to heinous calumny. Before commenters returned to bitching-as-usual, tempers were lost on literary sites all over the net in debating temperatures high enough to bring to mind tiles burning off space shuttles re-entering Earth’s atmosphere. After I'd agreed to a spontaneous suggestion by our good friend Sean Murray -- a pioneer and stalwart of the comments section of The Guardian’s books blog – that we re-...
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In case you hadn't noticed, Kate Middleton is NOT ROYAL, she's a regular title-free person. And the Queen is not the embodiment of the government, she's the embodiment of HISTORY, the rather grand history of the country!
ReplyDeleteAnd PS, British imperialism no longer exists. America, that supposed symbol of great democracy and freedom, is currently the most imperialistic country in the world. They have their own military in Germany, Japan, and Korea, wars that have been essentially over for decades, and have butted in in the Middle East where they were not needed and certainly not needed. And HELLO, the fascist sympathiser you mentioned? Edward VIII? HE GOT KICKED OUT.
ReplyDeleteYes but he was not kicked out for being a fascist sympathiser. I acknowledge the fact that as head of state the Queen embodies Britain - as a president would. But the principle of monarchy itself is offensive and anachronistic.
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