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London is a nice City.

London is an awesome tourist Destination.

I would love to go there as a tourist on Savage tours. LOL. In any case I had the item yesterday concerning the LIBOR, where the 'L' really ought to not be London, because London is so nice. We, as a group of concerned citizens, ought to consider the 'L' to mean 'Liar'. Does it matter what the other 4 letters mean?

I have a tiny book that is from the 1940's about 'Shakespeare's London. It explains a lot of interesting facts about that ancient city. I was especially fascinated by the London Bridge. The London Bridge in William's time was a district of the city! People had buildings on the bridge. The bridge harbored apartments and living quarters as well as businesses. And then, if there were to be a play at the theater, a flag would go up and people would go to the other side of the bridge and go to which ever theater was holding the play. Maybe even Elizabeth, herself, their queen, would also be in attendance. That is the fiction of a movie about the Globe Theater and also about Shakespeare. The idea of that story was . . . well the movie is called Shakespeare in Love. I won't give it away if you haven't seen it. It's not bad and worth your time if you have an interest in Shakespeare.

I have a tiny engraving print of Westminster Abby. It looks to be very old. It is an awesome portrayal of that revered place. London has a lot of such places is my guess; like New York; like Boston; Like Washington DC. But just like any place that has great people, it becomes a haven for anyone who hit the lottery anywhere. They want to come and live in the luminous city. London is one such luminous city. A luminous city will be complete with both rich and poor. And there will be nice ones and bad ones, no matter how much money they have, or can spend. Lost souls with a lot of money love to flock to places with great historical treasures of soul like London. And they go there and set up their inequity. They create a nest of liars. They make a mockery out of a hard working city. They give a name of the city to an overnight rate that . . . well . . . turns out to be a great big con.

If I made any real Londoner think that I disrespect your wonderful city, please know that I fancy myself a master of English. Well, at least New English. I don't pretend to know etymology like a Doctor of English at Oxford. But I do respect the vast and enormous contribution that English people have given to the world.

We have the same problem here in the new world. Anyone from anywhere comes here, set's up their ponzi scam, nests where the good money is (by good money I mean old-class money. People who were not just craven rich idiots. There were far more awesome and generous rich people over the years than the cretins of financial fiction. Wouldn't it be nice if the 'evil banker' motif were just that: a fiction?

I'd write the story like that. I'd have Mr. Potter decide to give the money back. He would do the right thing.

But, alas, sad and true, the movie its a wonderful life does portray that miscreant soul who does not repent. The rest of us survive in spite of the villainous cretin. And we must note that the rest of the town are not cretins. I do have problems with that film.

Getting back to London: Do I need to mention how awesome I felt about how London must be when I read Great Expectations and Pip and his dudes are out rowing on the river? That is a pastime that I, too, enjoy. The river is an important part of that city. That city has been at not just a ford in the river, but also a ford in civilization. The British have prided themselves as discoverers. May the plundering was part of that? Or did they send in the optimists and then the looter went in, behind the scenes? You can read a lot about the shenanigans of the British if you read the history of colonialism. Do you think that same copy made it back to London about how ridiculously fascistic some of the minions of the crown became? How many times in history do you read about a country burning down a city? And yet if you read history you hear about British troops doing just that. They, in that case, were not virtuous and, I am sure, if they would face it as individuals they would admit, maybe not to you and I, that what happened in the name of their crown was not always for Queen and country.

So now they are the place where great scams get put forward. And because that has become a cottage industry of theirs I am sure that many of them are on board with denying it all. They will cover it all up just the same way that we covered up Contragate. It was too big a scandal and made the whole nation look as fools.

We know that the British have fools, but they are not ruled by them. And the fool is a subject of English literature: notably the times that fools and Jesters show up in Shakespeare. So hopefully they will regain a moral sense and allow for something better to happen for them. They are almost captives of a socialist nightmare. How will they ever be free? Can they cast off the nanny state or is the dual cast of Socialism to be a permanent part of British life? Well, they have always had two casts. Under socialism they can pretend to be egalitarian, meanwhile give positions in the government to all the connected insiders of the special upper cast.

Is what I write fiction? Am I just stabbing at a curtain with blatant accusations? Did I not learn a thing from reading Hamlet?

 Geesh, I've flown far and away today,
       haven't I?

If my column upsets you then why?

  The Seven Main Aspects of
    God:
  Life
  Love
  Truth
  Spirit
  Principle
  Intelligence
  Soul
 according to Emmet Fox 
in his book Alter Your Life
He didn't make this up on his own.

I got nothing more

Aug 8, 2012

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