MDDM Ch. 76 The Exotick

[Doug Millison]

The invented War-is-Romance tradition  that spurs
military fervor might be seen to echo Stig's version
the Viking-invaders-as-bloodied victims revision of
Europe's first stab at Native American genocide.

Thanks for these notes, Dave.


--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> "'Be not deceiv'd by any level of the Exotick they
> may
> present you, Kilts, Bag-Pipes sort of thing. 
> Haggis. 
> You must keep unfailing vigilnace.'" (M&D, Ch. 76,
> p.
> 747)
> 

[...] The "kilt, the
> pipes,
> and the romantic version of Highland history", he
> writes, "came together in the image of the modern
> soldier as the direct descendant of the old clan
> warriors, steeped in martial glory." 
> 



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