"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superceded by Modernism, (remember Einstein augmenting Newton?).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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