[Magdalen] What are we reading?

[ME Michaud]

I have never understood that attitude.
We fought (some of my ancestors died) to extricate ourselves.
Then in 1812 we did it all over again.

Every morning, if the wind's out of the east, I hear a cannon fire to
remind us all.
It used to be my signal to head to the office.
But also a daily reminder of our two separated histories.

There have been times when, traveling in England, it's hit me over the head.
And I know WHY we shoved off and rowed away.
-M


On Wednesday, September 5, 2018, Roger Stokes via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
> On Kindle "If Only They Didn't Speak English". It's the BBC Washington
> Correspondent's attempt to explain what happened in November 2016. His
> thesis is that we Brits need to regard the USA as a foreign country with
> strange systems and structures rather than as a cousin "separated by a
> common language". From my own travels in the USA as well as reading reports
> about what is happening there I think he has a valid point. We do not start
> from the same point and have radically different structures.
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