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When people don't even know Winnipeg has traditionally French neighborhoods, well.. who knows.
ReplyDeleteMore thoughts on the DePape phenom. The image itself is powerful, outside the substance. The black on red coloring, the two silent figures in archaic costume, the faintly absurd political puppet show going on behind them (in a Senate chamber just slightly more ornate than the House, all in imitation of Westminster, with stand-ins for the king and queen on thrones performing a ritual submission to the commoner, etc., etc.) But the most remarkable thing is the black, red, the silence and actually there is substance: the non-violence. This is not an attack, or a fistfight among legislators, or a screaming protest or shot from the balcony, or any of the other things we have seen in parliaments of the world. It is clearly in the peace and dignity tradition of the student left. I've never understood why they put up with the violent anarchists who ruin most of their protests! Another remarkable thing was her walking out the gates alone, without, as far as I could see, a scrum of supporters. Instead she cradles a cellphone and links back into her festy crowd... the oddness of the present. And I would not make too much of her slightly befuddled, drama student interviews on the news. TV is a tough medium, and her written articles are at least coherent.
It may be simply that "de pape" means from or of the pope.
ReplyDeleteI have to disagree with you about the background though. The throne speech is anything but an absurd puppet show.
I mean it is almost literally a puppet show! The crown representative has to say exactly what the prime minister puts in front of him or her. It's even more weird in England, since they have been doing it for so long, and it was a gradual thing. Contrast puppet show to silent protest... I don't know, but it was dramatic...
ReplyDeleteCall me weird but I tend to think that the fact that the Queen or her representative does what the prime minister tells them to do is an enormously significant thing.
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