"WHO V?" (speculations...)

Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt hag at iafrica.com
Sat Dec 30 20:07:54 CST 1995


Many excellent ideas mentioned. But let's not forget good old Queen 
Victoria (died 1901) and the entire Victorian age, replaced / 
superceded by Modernism, (remember Einstein augmenting Newton?). 
It seems when the priest/V is dismantled, an old mechanist world-view is 
dismantled, replaced by a statistics / relativity / quantum theory 
based view - even more insidiously in Their service, but not as easy 
to 'grip'. Stencil jr, born 1901, chronicles the death / dismantling 
of V, and the Victorian world, and of course also helps to establish 
continuity, and shows what does _not_ 'die'.

hg
hag at iafrica.com



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