RE: [ImmoderateHeroQuest] Re: Cockney

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_oPp91SyAGkIsgc16fHO5ux3tmot-8akfp3jrr8s6UpLo2s0-G7oJn8XWXxrAX>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 06:43:58 +0100

 

> > > True to the original. Not so much about saving the universe as
> >maintaining
> > > (rural) middle class male sensibility.
> >
> >Isn't that the same thing?
>
> Not strictly. 'Saving the universe' is maintaining rural,
> middle class,
> American, Republican, White, Protestant male sensibility.

Well, Tolkein wouldn't have had much interest in saving Americans. Or indeed anything much beyond the Thames valley....            

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