During their escape, Charlie and Hector swim:
"The sea was cool. It tasted less salty than a terrestrial ocean. Sunlight skipped across waves." (10, p. 112)
Three sentences: three senses.
Next, they are back with the rebel fleet:
"Whitecaps marched before a fresh breeze which sang in tackle, filled out sails, and drove the fleet swiftly in the direction of sunrise. Everywhere Charlie looked, he saw vessels." (11, p. 113)
Two sentences: three senses but with sound replacing taste.
Dzenko thinks that three Feats have generated so much support that the remaining two are less important. Charlie opposes assassinations and argues that commoners should benefit from the revolution. He has started to have ideas about what should happen but has not yet gained a position that would enable him to implement his ideas.
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STAR PRINCE CHARLIE brings out an important point about the struggle against the Stuarts and then the switch to the Hanoverians: it was a fight -within- the ruling class.
The alternative to absolute(*) monarchy wasn't democracy; that simply wasn't on the table. The alternative was oligarchy, which is what the Whigs wanted -- and got.
In some respects the fall of the Stuarts hurt groups of ordinary people, because Parliamentary supremacy gave property-owners in Britain more security and greater control.
But the oligarchy was also open to successive steps to widen its base.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I agree, the system seen in Great Britain from the so called "Glorious" Revolution down to the first Parliamentary Reform Act of the 1830's was an oligarchy. An oligarchy dominated by the Whigs.
And I think the downfall of the Stuarts hurt LARGE numbers of people, such as the English and Irish Catholics, both of which continued to be oppressed by the Penal Laws till Catholic Emancipation in 1829. And of course the utterly iniquitous land settlements in Ireland was a disaster to most Irish.
But, yes, the Whig oligarchy was giving ground and widening its base by the 1820's.
Sean
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