Wait...fiction? Xmen isn't real?

Relax, you fiends! I'm only joking.

Alright, okay. I workerd it out.

yup.

I'm no one. I'n Japan they called me ichi-hickster, hickster number one, in tha house. yeah.

Because, wasn't the point that we use amusing but nebulous comics as a forum for increasing knowledge. I was concerned at the distortion of truth; yet her we our discussing our interpretation of it. Great.

Does that mean I lose? Whatever. This was never one of the big comic-truth issues...like Magneto, a Roma gypsy, mentally warped through the Holocaust committing evil to secure his people (mutants) - reflecting about both forgotten victims and - perhaps Isreals extremist present.

Great. Thanks for the chat.
Love. Peace.
'bye - hickster

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Originally posted by hickster:
Alright, okay. I workerd it out.

yup.

I'm no one. I'n Japan they called me ichi-hickster, hickster number one, in tha house. yeah.

Because, wasn't the point that we use amusing but nebulous comics as a forum for increasing knowledge. I was concerned at the distortion of truth; yet her we our discussing our interpretation of it. Great.

Does that mean I lose? Whatever. This was never one of the big comic-truth issues...like Magneto, a Roma gypsy, mentally warped through the Holocaust committing evil to secure his people (mutants) - reflecting about both forgotten victims and - perhaps Isreals extremist present.

Great. Thanks for the chat.
Love. Peace.
'bye - hickster

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I think this may have turned into a misunderstanding. I feel like you are thinking you are having a debate, when everyone is really just having a conversation. You can't lose in a conversation.

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Originally posted by hickster:
Alright, okay. I workerd it out.

yup.

I'm no one. I'n Japan they called me ichi-hickster, hickster number one, in tha house. yeah.

Because, wasn't the point that we use amusing but nebulous comics as a forum for increasing knowledge. I was concerned at the distortion of truth; yet her we our discussing our interpretation of it. Great.

Does that mean I lose? Whatever. This was never one of the big comic-truth issues...like Magneto, a Roma gypsy, mentally warped through the Holocaust committing evil to secure his people (mutants) - reflecting about both forgotten victims and - perhaps Isreals extremist present.

Great. Thanks for the chat.
Love. Peace.
'bye - hickster

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X-Men is a protean metaphor, though. It was the civil rights movement... now its the gay rights movement or whatever the fuck morrison wants. I've noted the irony of Magneto (though i thought he was Jewish and Dr. Doom was the Romany),a nd its quite interesting... what do you think of the more recent overt polticism, like that one about the black captain america test subject?

And the best conversations are debates, darrnit.

Excelsior!

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Hey thats me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
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About history and fiction based upon it ... going by my own experience, many of the kids will have their interest in the period piqued by the comic and go on to try to learn at least a bit about the principals. That can't be bad!

My sister and I devoured Sally Watson's historical novels (aimed at the teen girl audience - recently re-issued) as kids, and consequently were very interested in Tudor and Stuart England. When we actually got to visit Britain, we were eager to see places described in the books.

- Cho

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Now is not the time for heresy. Let's not slur Britain's greatest king. A man who stopped blood flowing, who unified our islands at last, who brought reason and understanding to the throne.

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Amazing how we can all take different interpretations from history. I've never read anything quite so glowing about James I. When he ruled Scotland he had a very tolerant attitude towards catholics, but many were disappointed by the hard line he took when he ascended the English throne. He continued Elizabeth's policies in Ireland, and is thought by many to have been almost directly responsible for the English civil war.

Lets bear in mind that this is the King who executed Sir Walter Raliegh

Here is a quote from http://www.genuki.org.uk

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The close of the life of James was marked by violent contests with his parliament, the preliminary skirmishing of religious and political parties, which became civil war in the following reign. Although James I. had received a careful education, prided himself on being a patron of literature, and even wrote many works both in prose and verse, he was not merely destitute of the vigour and ability and wisdom of a great sovereign, but had neither the intellectual nor moral qualities which go to the making of a noble man. Feebleness, indolence, vulgarity in tastes and pursuits, vanity, pedantry, these are the prominent features of his character

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Thats a particularly harsh quote, but there is certainly room for disagreement that James was all good.

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Originally posted by Chomiji:
About history and fiction based upon it ... going by my own experience, many of the kids will have their interest in the period piqued by the comic and go on to try to learn at least a bit about the principals. That can't be bad!

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I'd much prefer they go out and buy more comics, as the industry is in a slump and really needs their help.

Excelsior!

~~~~~~~~~

Join the Church of the Risen Morrison!

Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey thats me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
Bruce Springsteen, "Thunder Road"

"To fall in love is to create a religion with a fallible God"-- Jorge Luis Borges

http://lon.blogspot.com-- Its a slightly less eloquent me