Winchester

luka

Well-known member
This is the real good shit they keep for themselves. This is the deep tory magic. I felt the power and now I'm a believer.
 

sadmanbarty

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next you'll start posting "we are the nights who say nee" in the 'pointless but funny' thread.

"we're local people" and all that.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Winchester is the picturesque town that all seems to be built on or around a big hill right? Kinda like a giant Mont St Michel but not in the sea. And in England. I liked it, but then I like all those lovely, chocolate box English villages and towns such as.... I dunno... Salcombe or Rye or whatever. For a few days it can be extremely relaxing to go somewhere beautiful where nothing happens and the youngest person is 73 and the pubs are all really posh cosy gastropubs. After that it might drive you insane though.
 
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Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
I went here today for the first time. I'm a tory now.

Maybe you're confusing cause and effect. Maybe you were a Tory all along, deep down, and that's what drew you to Winchester, where you realized your true nature.
 

luka

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The question of what is worth preserving is one that sees the left/right divide break down. It's where you get wizened but regal tory grand dames arm in arm with scruffy leftie book botherers.
 

luka

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I don't think of history as dungeons and dragons I think it really happened. Winchester takes you back to the very dawn of the nation, to Lucius, to Alfred the Great, to William the Conquerer.
To the spread of Christianity through the old networks of Rome with all the miracle men, missionaries and saints.
To the time before political unity when the island was constantly besieged and invaded and plundered from without.
How all this stuff plays out and the material traces that it leaves.
These two entwined and turbulent histories of secular and religious power leading up to the reformation. And the knowledge also that the language is being born here also. That this stuff precedes Chaucer by hundreds of years.
All very, very potent.
 

luka

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And because the cathedrel is empty and very beautiful. And outside I felt I was within birdsong, surrounded by it everywhere for the first time in ages
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
I got totally the wrong end of the stick, I thought you were seduced by the aspic preserved comforts of a picturesque English pseudo-town rather than awed by the power of an ancient capital of Albion. Both things have their merits though.
 
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