What I like and approve of:
the music
togetherness
memory and nostalgia
acknowledgement of the passage of time
What I am not in tune with:
the focusing of all this on an English public school or indeed on any boarding school
Relevance to Anderson:
continuity
conservatism
Flandry and his fiancee in A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I see nothing wrong with Eton or any other school having songs focusing on inculcating loyalty and affection for these schools. It's an example of the tribal instinct natural to human beings.
Ad astra! Sean
I see nothing wrong with it either!
But that sort of school is not my thing. I attended a boarding school, the most prestigious in the Republic of Ireland, run by Jesuits, immortalized by James Joyce, where one of the music teachers composed a school song, and I now want nothing to do with that school.
Kaor, Paul!
Good, I'm glad your old school is developing its own traditions and customs, like that song.
Ad astra! Sean
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