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[Guest_Nina_*]

James

You are most welcome

Nina

[Guest_Jox_*]

Hi Nina,

Thanks again for popping back and sticking with this.

I think it must be me who didn't quite make myself clear - not you :)

>>I didn't mean to suggest your poor persecuted pheasant was any of those.  In fact in my post I said:
>>My feeling is that your pheasant had a need to turn to violence and shoot his attackers

Nope I didn't misunderstand that. I was just stating the situation as compared to Cathy's character - not rebuffing any comment you made at all, sorry.

>>I wasn't trying to compare your pheasant with Cathy's Knight, though you read it as such.

I did, yes. Weren't you? I though that you were in order to do what you mention in your next point...

>>I was looking at a notion of someone in their fight for survival being driven to go much further than is necessary for self preservation, which is what Cathy implies in her tale (or that is how it appears to me).  

I agree; in that specific verse, her knight comes across as all those things I was saying the pheasant wasn't. To me her knight goes way beyond self-preservation - almost into what, today, we would call war crimes - but that only applies to that verse; I really have to re-read the whole.

err, so I actually think we're agreeing?

WW2 was also a fight for power and control. All wars are that (as you indicate) - with economics thrown in. The Nazis simply wanted to control just about everywhere for the greater good of Germany and fascism. And there's a good chance that I wouldn't be sitting here, replying to your non-posts, either.

Your mental wanderings are far from weird (something about which I know a great deal) and very much appreciated.

A cooked tea... that takes me back to my childhood. Apart from toast, don't think I've had one since. Just checking when the next train to London is from central Hampshire - they are very frequent - and the journey is quite quick - so if you'd kindly hang on a few mins...

James.