Porter is terrific. He wrote a crapload of stuff on the 18th century including all sorts of shit about medicine and insanity.
French dogs! Of course. *g* And tons of blasphemy. XD
I don't know if I was the one talking about HH as a modern figure, but it's a tight fit. HH comes off as if he was raised like a veal in so many spots. As if the culture of the world he lives in is a big whopping surprise. There's also this whiff of the Englightenment about him but how far that goes I haven't really paid enough attention to, or if I'm just making all that up, which is a huge possibility. XD
And there is some sort of nexus that I've never been able to articulate properly about the English pov towards the French and the fledgling USA that makes no sense for the classes of folk like Bush who have had a hard road in life because of the way English soceity is structured. You would THINK (flaws and excesses and failures of the systems aside) that you would see more sympathy for the basic Republican ideologies of the French Revolution. Maybe it's because the English got their asses spanked by the colonials in league with the French, or maybe something else entirely to do with the national cultural consciousness and the sort of particular type of English xenophobia coupled with the self-love that Porter points out so well.
And there is definitely some sort of different class thing going on with the food. That is a fact. And I think it's in LtH that CSF points out that Bush is a fast eater -- like a dog that wolfs down the food because you have to get it when you can.
OMG it's another diatribe *tells self to STFU*
French dogs! Of course. *g* And tons of blasphemy. XD
I don't know if I was the one talking about HH as a modern figure, but it's a tight fit. HH comes off as if he was raised like a veal in so many spots. As if the culture of the world he lives in is a big whopping surprise. There's also this whiff of the Englightenment about him but how far that goes I haven't really paid enough attention to, or if I'm just making all that up, which is a huge possibility. XD
And there is some sort of nexus that I've never been able to articulate properly about the English pov towards the French and the fledgling USA that makes no sense for the classes of folk like Bush who have had a hard road in life because of the way English soceity is structured. You would THINK (flaws and excesses and failures of the systems aside) that you would see more sympathy for the basic Republican ideologies of the French Revolution. Maybe it's because the English got their asses spanked by the colonials in league with the French, or maybe something else entirely to do with the national cultural consciousness and the sort of particular type of English xenophobia coupled with the self-love that Porter points out so well.
And there is definitely some sort of different class thing going on with the food. That is a fact. And I think it's in LtH that CSF points out that Bush is a fast eater -- like a dog that wolfs down the food because you have to get it when you can.