The last of a series on the upcoming civil war in Britain. Parts One through Six are linked in the article, and a downloadable PDF of the entire series is also linked. From El Inglés at gatesofvienna.net:
This is the final installment of a seven-part sociocultural analysis by El Inglés. Previously: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.
NOTE: The complete text of “Crown, Crescent, Pitchfork” is now available in PDF format (3.7 MB). Download it here.
EPILOGUE
I’m Thinking I’m Gone
A noble effort, yea, it did require,
In heart, a fire that would not yield to doubt
To take this squirming sack of rumination
And lay down that which other mind would shun
For quill on desk does lie, its ink all spent
And scribe, now bent with weary, drooping lid
Does dream of pasture new and meadow gay
Where petal dazzles eye — red, lilac, gold
T’wards pond of thought I cast my humble pebble
Whose lines dare dabble in matters most vexatious
A splash — the sound of water! — ripples crease
Off on their way and flatness reigns once more
The scribe, he dreams of land where, under sun,
Our work, once done, must soon but lie forgotten,
Forgotten now, it dares to live forever
When scribe and quill have drifted out to sea
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There were other topics that I could have discussed in this document: the likelihood of natives developing a tradition of suicide attacks; the involvement of other ethnic groups (Hindus, Sikhs, etc.); the diplomatic and economic consequences of the conflict we envisage; and so on and so forth. However, in writing, as in so many things, less is generally more. I feel the five foregoing analytical sections provide a coherent, interlocking analytical view of the characteristics OMT are likely to display. Introducing peripheral topics would expand the analysis, but dilute it, too — hence my decision to keep things short but sweet.
