"The Milky Way reared in an arch of white diamond dust above them."
Steak and eggs for breakfast;
steak and potato au gratin for lunch;
steak au poivre with frites, zinfandel and green salad, followed by peach Melba, for dinner.
This post enriches both our Milky Way Thread and our Food Thread.
Continuing to read SM Stirling's Theater Of Spies, we find that yet another well-known revolutionary comes to an untimely, although some would say appropriate, end. Oh, well. This is an alternative history, after all.
Are all revolutionarires robbers and rogues? See the differing accounts of Barabbas in the Gospels.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
In my comment to the previous blog piece I stated that I was sick of politicians and "revolutionaries" whose "social conscience" always seem to end up making things worse, not better. So many revolutionaries end up being vastly worse worse than the leaders or regimes they overthrew. E.g., Robespierre became a cruel, blood drenched fanatic vastly worse than the kindly, well meaning, earnestly reformist Louis XVI. And so on for the revolutionary monsters of the 20th century: Lenin, Stalin, Mao, the Kims of N Korea, Castro, Pol Pot, et nauseatingly al. And Flandry's comments in THE GAME OF EMPIRE on why he oppose revolutions are also apt.
Sean
To avoid confusion, I should have said above I was alluding to "Pastiches And Sequels."
Sean
And I forgot to include Hitler in my list of 20th century revolutionary monsters!
Sean
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